From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnu vs. xemacs Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:52:00 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85mz59p15r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <1167219981.424569.215160@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167252031 27714 80.91.229.10 (27 Dec 2006 20:40:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:40:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 27 21:40:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GzfZa-0000X3-5O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:40:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GzfZZ-0000tW-HF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:40:25 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.n-ix.net!news2.arglkargh.de!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6KGkm7yor3l1IFxOl/T4Aq7Eqos= Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Dec 2006 20:52:01 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 6c442aa5.newsspool1.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=A`8MZBLKmC3@<=lAGNBLSGD Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144359 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39961 Archived-At: "H." writes: > I was just curious why people in this community prefer gnu over > xemacs, or if that is the case, and, whatever your preference is, > why you feel that way. I'm neutral myself, being just a > beginner. All opinions welcome. For instance, perhaps these > difference forks are good for different things...? Except for some features of its own, development of XEmacs trails that of Emacs for about 5 years. For those features where XEmacs is leading, the documentation is still trailing for about 5 years, so one can't actually make educated use of them. Development for XEmacs is not user-driven: problem reports and feature and documentation requests from non-core programmers tend to fall by the wayside or get argued away. It is my impression that GNU Emacs has a much higher standard of documentation and coherence in API design and user interface. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum