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by tjr 6704 days ago
GNU Emacs or XEmacs?

Or ?...
3 comments
Prrometheus 6704 days ago
It took me forever to figure out that xemacs isn't emacs for X
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bayareaguy 6704 days ago
or (shudder) Emacs.NET !

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1069

the horror.. the horror..

Any good recursive acronyms for it?

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/gnuemacs.acro.exp.html

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softwarejim 6704 days ago
GNU Emacs on Windows, but not for any special reason. Help convince me, is XEmacs better?
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tjr 6704 days ago
Not necessarily better. I was just being silly, really; haven't used XEmacs myself for years.

XEmacs was a fork off of GNU Emacs. They did some good things with the software, but they were loose in their legal matters, and accordingly the FSF never accepted XEmacs code back into the GNU Emacs mainline.

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