On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:42:28 +0900, Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
To add my (devalued) PhP 0.02: I've used both XEmacs and Emacs, and there are some caveats (it seems) when trying to install elisp scripts. Like Sacha said, these are mostly problems of having to deal with different ways of doing things. However, there are some user-visible differences outright (at least, that I've noticed) For example, when using GNU Emacs, M-g binds to set-font-face, while on XEmacs M-g binds to goto-line (if you want M-g to bind to goto-line, which is usefule if you're a coder like me, add (global-set-key "\M-g" 'goto-line) to your .emacs Yet another diff, at least in later versions of XEmacs, is the init file. XEmacs will respect .emacs in ~/, but will prefer you put your init script in ~/.xemacs/init.el, with customizations in ~/.xemacs/custom.el -- customizations being those options selected from customize-group. -- JM Ibanez -- A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. -- Bertrand Russell ----- http://www.livejournal.com/~jmibanez/ http://www.mycgiserver.com/~butiki/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.q-linux.com (#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
