[COFF] [TUHS] Re: Not really Emacs wars (was: foreground/background vs. Windowing)

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday, 19 July 2025 at 19:27:40 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
>>
>> [Somewhat off-topic for TUHS; please follow up at COFF]
>>
>> On Saturday, 19 July 2025 at 17:37:34 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>>>
>>> Also, there are no GUI emacs versions I like..
>>
>> You have me curious.  How many do you know?  And what don't you like
>> about them, when you clearly use Emacs?
>
> Most of the emacs GUI adaptations assume that it's THE instance of the
> editor.

You don't say which.  I only know GNU Emacs.  Looking at the FreeBSD
Ports Collection, not even xemacs seems to have survived.

> With multiple terminals, I can have multiple editors with different
> contexts. With the GUI, it all gets dumped together.

Not in my experience (GNU Emacs 29.4 (build 1,
amd64-portbld-freebsd13.3, GTK+ Version 3.24.43, cairo version
1.17.4).  I have four displays on my server 0, and also 4 instances of
Emacs: one on :0.1 and three on :0.2.  You need to start them
individually, of course, but that's what shells are for.  Each Emacs
can open windows on other displays, and that's useful if they're on
other machines, but it's not the only way.  Can it be that your
negative experience was with another version that has since died?

What you describe sounds like my pain with web browsers.

Greg
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