Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?

[Alexander Kushnirenko <kushnir@pccmu1.fnal.gov>]

Hi,

You may want to check:
http://www.xemacs.org/faq/xemacs-faq.html

Sasha.

It looks nicer. 
The XEmacs maintainers are generally more receptive to suggestions than the 
GNU Emacs maintainers.
Many more bundled packages than GNU Emacs 
Binaries are available for many common operating systems. 
Face support on TTY's. 
A built-in toolbar. 
Better Motif compliance. 
Some internationalization support (including full MULE support, if compiled 
with it.)
Variable-width fonts. 
Variable-height lines. 
Marginal annotations. 
ToolTalk support. 
XEmacs can be used as an Xt widget, and can be embedded within another 
application.
Horizontal and vertical scrollbars (using real toolkit scrollbars). 
Better APIs (and performance) for attaching fonts, colors, and other 
properties to text.
The ability to embed arbitrary graphics in a buffer. 
Completely compatible (at the C level) with the Xt-based toolkits. 
First production Web Browser supporting Style Sheets. 


> 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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