Re: XEmacs

[unfrostedpoptart]

On Friday, May 10, 2013 3:38:02 AM UTC-7, Hilary wrote:
> On 28/04/13 23:28, James Freer wrote:
> 
> > My apologies. I read that somewhere recently... i did say "I don't think..."
> > Gnu Emacs is much better - i don't know why anyone should want to use
> > Xemacs.
> I used Xemacs for a while a few years ago because at that time, on a 
> slow windoze box, it was significantly snappier and more stable then GNU 
> Emacs. GNU Emacs caught up and overtook Xemacs, even before I acquired 
> faster hardware and switched to Linux.

I've been using emacs since 18.57 / 1988.  I switched to Lucid and then xemacs 
for many years but switched to gnu almost 2 years ago (Linux, Mac, Win).  The 
support/development of xemacs has pretty much dried up and many of the packages 
I wanted to use no longer are compatible with xemacs.  It didn't take long to 
convert all my customizations and it's been great.  Many computer-intensive 
operations (e.g. re-indenting large files) are at least an order of magnitude 
faster!