Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?
Matt Garman writes:
Matt> You can use the same .emacs file everywhere, with XEmacs and GNU emacs
Matt> options defined. I have both flavors of emacs on my machine, and my
Matt> .emacs file is setup such that GNU emacs ignores the XEmacs stuff, and
Matt> XEmacs ignores the GNU emacs options. The XEmacs FAQ at
Matt> http://xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu/ has info on how to accomplish this.
I think he meant (and he's right) that sometimes it's necessary to
write different pieces of code to achieve the same functionality under both
Emacsen. A constant effort is done to preserve compatibility, especially in
the semantics of the Elisp functions and their user interface, but diverging a
bit is unfortunately something unavoidable. Even the bytecode is becoming
incompatible these days...
However, soon you're going to have a `fsf-compat' package under XEmacs
which will take care of translating Emacs calls into XEmacs ones.
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