[UFO Chicago] Interesting reading for when you've got a few hours

Elliot Shank clonezne@galumph.com
Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:05:11 -0500


Paul Suda wrote:
> Given the timing and circumstances, I think that this fork was the best
> thing that could have happened. Emacs 20.0 seems to have full featured X11
> support while still being a good tty program and being portable to other
> OS's. It sounds like FSF Emacs 19 had all of these nice things too, except
> it kind of sucked with X11. It's nice that Lucid Emacs filled that gap for
> a while, and I suppose Xemacs is still a good product.

To my brother, to whom Emacs is the only way, there is a world of
difference between the two versions, with XEmacs winning hands down.

I don't care 'cause I'm a vi guy.

See, I come from a mixed family.  :]