From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Orm Finnendahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: switching from emacs to xemacs Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:07:55 +0200 Organization: Folkwang-Hochschule, Essen, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030916190755.GA5508@finnendahl.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063739405 24892 80.91.224.253 (16 Sep 2003 19:10:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:10:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 16 21:10:03 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19zLD8-0006LP-00 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19zLBS-0003G3-NW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:08:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19zLBC-0003Eq-VG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:08:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19zLBB-0003Db-F6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:08:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.175.156.129] (helo=icemserv.folkwang-hochschule.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.22) id 19zLBA-0003DN-Tl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:08:01 -0400 Original-Received: from grisey.local (root@icemserv.folkwang-hochschule.de [193.175.156.129]) by icemserv.folkwang-hochschule.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h8GJD2s98716 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:13:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from finnendahl@folkwang-hochschule.de) Original-Received: from orm by grisey.local with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19zLB6-0001R9-00 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:07:56 +0200 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12556 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12556 Am 16. September 2003, 20:09 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Stein A. Stromme: > [Orm Finnendahl] > > | after years using emacs, I finally started to switch to xemacs. > > Nobody asked yet, so here: why? Well, actually because I couldn't get font-lock support in my color xterm and because I erroneously thought emacs was somewhat outdated and in the process of merging into xemacs. Little did I know about the fact that these programs actually are different branches altogether. And little did I know that color support only started with emacs21 and I still had emacs 20.7. Well, I ended up reading about emacs' and xemacs' history, upgraded to emacs21 and voila, the colors work! Now I'm happy as happy can be using emacs in a terminal window (I much prefer that to X anyway). And sorry that I obviously was posting to the wrong list. The only thing I slightly regret is that it doesn't seem to be possible to use "emacsclient" in the same terminal as the issuing process (like with xemacs' "gnuclient -nw" command) but rather in the emacs server window. Are there any workarounds? Thanx, Orm