Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Hi Mark,

2013/11/16 Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org>:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:02:23PM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>> 2013/11/15 Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org>:
>
>> > While develoment on xemacs is very slow these days I find it much more
>> > visually pleasing than GNU emacs.
>
>> I know it is mostly personal preference, but what parts of xemacs are notably
>> more pleasing visually?
>> I have just switched to a back-ported Emacs 24.3.1 and noticed that the GTK+3
>> scrollbars became pretty nice and had the thought that 'Hey, it looks
>> quite OK now!'.
>> Maybe if you point out some visual issues which are solved in XEmacs, GNU Emacs
>> developers would pick those up.
>
> The colour scheme and font selection are particularly appealing to me
> and with emacs23 I find that the window looks like it is missing a
> border at the right hand side (partly due to the unusual decision to
> place the scroll bar on the left) which is odd.  Some of this is just
> familiarity, some of it could be fixed with configuration.
I agree that having the scroll bar on the left is quite unusual and it has been
changed to having the scrollbar on the right by default in Emacs 24.
I don't have XEmacs installed and I'm not sure if the new colors in Emacs 24
are any closer to your preference.
Maybe having Emacs 24 in wheezy-backports would be nice, it could help
some people not fully satisfied with Emacs 23.

Cheers,
Balint