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Re: Continuing Linux Education [message #47441 is a reply to message #47353]

Tue, 07 February 2006 12:28

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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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. The primary reasons for using XEmacs in the late
> 90's: image support, variable pitch font support, toolbars, scroll
> wheel, etc. have vanished, as all of these things have been added to
> Emacs with time.

Yes, I just tried the Emacs (version 21.1) that's currently bundled with
Cygwin and was pleasantly surprised. Unfortunately Emacs on our Cray T3E
is stuck at version 19.28, and it's a bit sparse!

Thanks for the info.

--
Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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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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