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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 2007 14:53:17 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        a@zeos.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Emacs vs XEmacs: which to choose for plain console using?
Message-ID:  <A3DE45AE-4B89-4F26-86FD-862573625FE2@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070103194157.GA34860@host.my.domain>
References:  <20070103194157.GA34860@host.my.domain>

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On Jan 3, 2007, at 2:41 PM, a@zeos.net wrote:
> What are advantages and disadvantages of xemacs over emacs?

At one point, there was substantial disagreement amongst the Emacs  
developers about how to add support for new windowing systems besides  
X11, and this ended up forking the project; for a while, XEmacs had  
much better native font-handling and color management on non-X11  
platforms like Windows, NEXTSTEP/MacOS X, etc.

Most of those changes have been reverse-merged into the main Emacs  
tree since, so the differences are no longer as significant.

> Which to choose for plain console using?

Under the console or a normal terminal useage, there's no real  
difference.

-- 
-Chuck




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