Re: "Easy" Windows Emacs

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Fabrice Popineau <Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr> writes:

> * David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>     > There is a complete XEmacs/TeX/AUCTeX/preview-latex bundle called
>     > XEmTeX available as well (Google for it).  Personally, I don't
>     > particularly like XEmacs, and the Windows version in XEmTeX is
>     > likely to be non-MULE (at least if it is 21.4), meaning that it
>     > won't get along with utf-8.
>
> The xemacs bundled is the latest 21.5 cvs compiled natively with
> mule.  AUCTeX and Preview mode are also from cvs.

I'd wish I'd get the merge finished well enough so that we can release
again.  Probably this week.  I think most of the remaining issues can,
with not too bad a conscience, be left as they are.  Currently not
much more than figuring out a good packaging strategy remains: the
code works pretty much ok, I guess.

> http://www.metz.supelec.fr/~popineau/xemtex-2.html

Thanks for the correction.  I don't have any personal experience with
XEmacs 21.5.  I do find the kind of error reports it gets on the
XEmacs developer list somewhat scary, and Ralf tends not to be too
enthused about how well bug reports and patches from the AUCTeX
developers are taken up.

It is somewhat likely, particularly on Windows, that XEmacs 21.5
provides better satisfaction than XEmacs 21.4 when working with
AUCTeX.  But you are probably quite more qualified to say anything
about that.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum