From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "A. L. Meyers" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs or xemacs? Date: 14 Sep 2002 10:33:32 +0200 Organization: Meyers Consulting http://www.consult-meyers.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87wuppezs3.fsf@nomad.consult-meyers.com> References: Reply-To: A. Lucien Meyers NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031993181 1714 127.0.0.1 (14 Sep 2002 08:46:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 08:46:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17q8ZI-0000RW-00 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 10:46:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17q8ZT-0001Lo-00; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 04:46:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeed.sunrise.ch!news.sunrise.ch!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Accept-Language: de en fr it User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.230.156.208 Original-X-Trace: 1031992146 news.sunrise.ch 711 194.230.156.208 Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104906 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1461 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1461 Although it may not be perfect, the xemacs package system works reasonably well and is certainly better than no package system at all, alas still the case with emacs AFAIK. My personal hope is that the developers of both emacsen with soon get over the unicode hump and with unicode as the base get all the other encodings to work transparently in the background. A stupid, lazy end user's dream. :-) Lucien -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. PGP Key fingerprint=F1C0 D9AE 1B18 1405 4DFA B4CC 6DC7 FF78 C76E FB15 To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": Ortega cracking anthrax North Korea World Trade Center colonel NORAD FBI