Re: XEmacs at a crossroads
Hi Guys. Mi comments below.
On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:36:36 -0500,
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
I don't know, but I doubt it would be straightforward graphics
programming. XEmacs by default uses a collection of widgets developed
by the Lucid people, while Emacs uses the platform widgets, although I
think the Lucid framework is still in there. XEmacs generally
implemented wrapper APIs as needed at the C level, whereas GNU tends
to hook directly into the platform features. Eg, their Windows/DOS
code is far more divergent from that for POSIX platforms than our is.
It might be possible to "theme" the GTK widgets more attractively,
though.
I use this GNU/Emacs version:
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GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars) of 2015-04-21 on wari
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That is the Lucid version.
Because of this bug:
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Warning: due to a long standing Gtk+ bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715
Emacs might crash when run in daemon mode and the X11 connection is unexpectedly lost.
Using an Emacs configured with --with-x-toolkit=lucid does not have this
problem.
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I have always thought why Lucid-x-toolkit is never updated?
How the Lucid-x-toolkit got on GNU/Emacs?
And because of the crossroads I have one additional question:
In the last 5 years GNU/Emacs is having a pretty bright time, that means
lots of tutorials, lots of packages, lot of people involved with the
project, lots of dot-emacs-distributions like spacemacs, ergoemacs,
prelude.
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Why there is no a 'prelude' (dot emacs distribution) equivalent or
something like that, just for downloading Xemacs, another tarball and
enjoy the full Xemacs experience quickly? (even downloading
automatically some mule-packages from the web)
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Thanks Stephen J. for your contributions on the emacs-dev
mailing list (They have been very enlightenment to me).
Regards
ps: that Lucid toolkit is a great piece of sw. It is still relevant on
2015. And is going to be as long as the gtk bug is not closed (not going
to be closed on the near future)
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