Hi Gordon,
I am an xemacs/emacs user (and have been using emacs since before vi was 
written).
I have built a recent version of emacs and xemacs on opensolaris, and am 
very
underwhelmed when I compare it to what was shipped with SunStudio.  The
functionality is just different enough to be a pain to work with.  Why 
can't you
simply ship the version that was being shipped with Sun Studio?  It worked
fine. 

Regardless, I am happy to be a beta user.  To be honest, I am not very 
concerned about
fonts.  I like to run my shells, ssh/telnet sessions all in emacs.  I 
can do this with the
version of emacs/xemacs I built, but it does not work as well as I would 
like
(and I'm not a lisp programmer, so do not want to take the time to 
figure out what needs
to be changed).

I guess my idea of the default settings, and other people's ideas are 
different, but
the only thing I needed to do with the version from Sun Studio was to 
add cscope
functionality.  Good luck getting everyone to agree on what are the best 
default settings.

There have been a few times when I (shudder) found that vi worked 
better!!! (ugh).

You don't have any emacs users?  How do you do 
development/debugging/source browsing???

Regards,
max


Gordon Prieur wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     I'm attempting to package XEmacs (21.4.21) for the OpenSolaris 
> repository. I've got
> it building OK but the default font is unreadable. I'm looking for a way 
> to set a new
> default font to something readable, so I can package an xemacs which is 
> usable immediately.
>
>     I also wouldn't mind finding some xemacs users who would help beta 
> test these
> packages. The Developer Tools organization has been asked to package xemacs
> (probably because we've shipped it with Sun Studio in the past), but we 
> don't have any
> xemacs users:-)
>
> Thanks,
> Gordon
>
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