Re: Gnu Emacs and Vista ASLR feature

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 11:26:08 +0100
>> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> Fabrice Popineau wrote:
>
> Hello, Fabrice!  Long time no spoken.  Welcome to GNU Emacs (I think
> you used to use XEmacs in the past).

I would be surprised to hear that the past tense here is really
appropriate when Fabrice just starts trying to compile Emacs.  Fabrice
has put together a complete TeX/editing solution for Windows called
XEmTeX several years ago that was intended to be used by inexperienced
users.  XEmacs offered a superior GUI feature set and reasonable
stability particularly under Windows at that time.  utf-8 was not a
topic for TeX or anything else.  AUCTeX was supported and installed in
its current version out of the box.

I think that considering ongoing TeX developments, the current state of
Emacs warrants a reevaluation, and the same might be somewhat sadly said
about the current state of XEmacs.  I am certainly glad that a system
integrator of Fabrice's level is putting Emacs through the motions.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum