Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

Hi,

A while ago you wrote to debian-user saying:

> Wow, why such complexities? Try VM under Emacs or (better) XEmacs. You
> get the best of all worlds. When you're in X you get clickable URLs
> and HTML rendering (and toolbars and inline image attachment viewing
> and all the other stuff you see in graphical clients), and when you're
> at the console you get a regular textual client a la pine.

What advantages does XEmacs have over Emacs (and are there any the other
way around)?  I am using emacs at the moment.  Is it worth me changing?

And what is VM?  Is it an mh based mailer?

Thanks,

Mark.


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