Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > they are the same (well more-or-less). XEmacs is just Emacs with an > X/Motif (or other GUI) front end. it also trails the stock Emacs by a > few releases (e.g. 20.15 vs 20.19 or whatever versioning is in use
GNU Emacs has a rather pretty X interface now, of course. XEmacs is a completely separate fork. Among other things, it has multi-tty support in main (you need a special branch of GNU Emacs for that one) and an interesting packaging system. Differences between XEmacs and GNU Emacs mostly bother developers who have to deal with comparative Emacsology (extents vs overlays and whatnot). Some packages run better on XEmacs, but I get the impression that most packages are native on GNU Emacs. My Planner, for example, runs better on GNU Emacs than on XEmacs. For a beginner, there's not much difference. I'll be able to help more with GNU Emacs, though, so you might want to start with that. =) -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - open source geekette http://sacha.free.net.ph/ - PGP Key ID: 0xE7FDF77C interests: emacs, gnu/linux, personal information management, CS ed sachac on irc.freenode.net#emacs . YM: sachachua83 -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
