[PLUG] emacs or xemacs?

[Anthony Schlemmer]

I haven't used XEmacs in a number of years now but I did use it when I 
first starting using Emacs. It had all the pulldown menus and other 
stuff which made it easy to use and learn. Later on I switched to emacs 
as I didn't need all of the extra pulldowns and stuff even though emacs 
has its fair share of drop down menus now.

Since many of my jobs over the years have required me to use a Windows 
machine I tend to now favor GNU emacs since it runs under both Windows 
and Unix. It even handles Windows textfiles properly with the CR/LF 
line terminators. I've seen some mixed environments get screwed up when 
someone edits a Windows textfile on Unix and lines are terminate with 
LF characters only. 

With emacs it didn't seem to matter what platform was used to edit the 
file as it seemed to do the right thing on either platform from what I 
remember. I did most of my editing from a Sun box since all of our 
files were in Clearcase and the Sun box was also our view and VOB 
server.

I guess where there might be a problem is if the file was originally 
created on Unix but was used on Windows. 

Tony

On Tuesday 13 August 2002 12:30 pm, Shannon C. Dealy wrote:
> After many years, I've decided to give emacs another shot, but now I
> see there are two versions available, does anyone know if there are
> any advantages/disadvantages to choosing xemacs over the emacs?
>
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