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

Hauke Fath hauke at Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE
Mon Jul 21 18:03:08 AEST 2025


On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:03:38 +1000, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" wrote:
>> 
>> 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.

That would be more a problem of the FreeBSD ports collection than of 
xemacs, if I may say so as the pkgsrc xemacs* package maintainer. Some 
Linuxen ship xemacs packages, too - Gentoo, Debian come to mind.

You can always - dare I say it? - build from source.

XEmacs is actively maintained, I don't know how SXEmacs is doing these 
days.

Cheerio,
Hauke

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