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Re: Continuing Linux Education [message #47438 is a reply to message #47306]

Tue, 07 February 2006 17:33

David Kastrup
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Registered: February 1998

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Mark Hadfield <m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz> writes:

> JD Smith wrote:
>> [snip]
>> Mostly habit and inertia, but Emacs at (unreleased) version 22
>> actually surpasses XEmacs in many ways, at least for what I do. It
>> builds trivially for X11 on all Unixes and OSX, for Carbon under
>> OSX, Windows, etc. Some of my most used modes, like AUCTeX, target
>> GNU Emacs by default.

I think that is an unfair characterization. AUCTeX works as well as
can be expected on XEmacs, and that is due to a lot of hard work by
the AUCTeX developers. We even offer a finished XEmacs package from
the download site of AUCTeX <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex>.
It is a pity that XEmacs development policies thwart our work and
support of XEmacs at every turn. For example, XEmacs is distributed
with outdated AUCTeX packages due to policy reasons (XEmacs does not
accept packages that are not maintained in the XEmacs package CVS,
have the XEmacs package structure and are built by the XEmacs package
build system). Those policy reasons mean that packages intended for
Emacs are only infrequently checked into XEmacs, and often by
volunteers not intimate with the code.

More often than not, packages running on both Emacs and XEmacs are
quite better maintained on Emacs. Of course, there are some
XEmacs-only packages, too.

> Yes, I just tried the Emacs (version 21.1) that's currently bundled
> with Cygwin and was pleasantly surprised.

Guffaw. 21.1 would be rather old. 21.4 is the last _released_
version, but many people nowadays work with a snapshot of what is to
become 22.1.

> Unfortunately Emacs on our Cray T3E is stuck at version 19.28, and
> it's a bit sparse!

Uh, yes.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

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		Continuing Linux Education By: David Fanning on Fri, 03 February 2006 16:12
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: JD Smith on Tue, 07 February 2006 08:33
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 07 February 2006 12:28
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: JD Smith on Tue, 07 February 2006 08:13
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: savoie on Wed, 08 February 2006 07:07
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: Mark Hadfield on Mon, 06 February 2006 14:52
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: MarioIncandenza on Mon, 06 February 2006 12:08
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: David Fanning on Mon, 06 February 2006 09:37
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: David Kastrup on Tue, 07 February 2006 17:33
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: JD Smith on Fri, 10 February 2006 09:53
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: David Kastrup on Fri, 10 February 2006 15:21

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