Re: [PLUG] Poll! editors (and possibly me burning at the stake)

[Andrew Gwozdziewycz <apgwoz@gmail.com>]

On Nov 26, 2007, at 4:53 PM, Brent Saner wrote:

thanks andrew; that was helpful and informative.

can you elaborate a bit on the xemacs vs. gnu emacs? what sort of incompatibilities? different macro system, etc.?

They are largely compatible, but when you look at code for extensions, you'll a lot of times see conditional code to take into account the differences in the way they handle certain things. XEmacs is a fork of GNU Emacs. The fork happened because the at the time Lucid Emacs people wanted to merge in a bunch of changes that the GNU Emacs team did not want to accept. There's history some where around the internet, and I'm sure you can dig up more info, because I certainly am no expert.

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