Re: xemacs vs. gnu emacs

Jessica> I've been assigned the task of researching the Jessica> differences between GNU Emacs and Xemacs, in order to Jessica> convince our sysadmin to install one of them. I've Hi Jessica, have you found http://www.xemacs.org/About/XEmacsVsGNUemacs.html yet? Jessica> noticed from your stable release FTP site that it's been Jessica> quite awhile since a stable release became available. Is This is because the introduction of Gamma releases has eased the pressure to release a new stable release. Gamma is quite stable and should be promoted to stable soon. See http://www.xemacs.org/Releases/index.html Jessica> Xmacs still under development, or have Xemacs and GNU Jessica> emacs in fact merged? Is there any real advantage to XEmacs and GNU Emacs have not merged. Jessica> installing Xemacs (rather than the latest version of Jessica> Emacs?) XEmacs has unbundled its lisp packages into separately (un)installable units. That way you can choose from minimal footprint XEmacs to an all bells all whistles installation. All XEmacs packages are available in one big Sumo package for ease of installation as well. See steps 7 to 15 in http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html for individual package installation or just skip all the way over step 15 for the Sumo method. GNU Emacs does not have separately installable packages. XEmacs has online HTML documentation at http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/index.html or any of its world-wide website mirrors. Best regards, Adrian Jessica> Thanks. Jessica> Jessica -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/