xemacs vs emacs

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Reiner Steib writes:
>
>  > I think what you wrote [...] might give the wrong impression that
>  > an XEmacs user receives more current and supported versions of
>  > "third-party" packages such as Gnus and AUCTeX compared to using
>  > Emacs.
>
> But that impression is not wrong, depending on versions.  Any user of
> XEmacs 21 -- released in 1998! -- has access to a version of Gnus and
> AUCTeX more recent than that distributed with any version of Emacs 20
> or Emacs 21 -- of which there are known to be many users.

After

apt-get install emacs21 xemacs21 auctex

the version of AUCTeX for Emacs is newer than that for XEmacs.  And of
course, the stable Emacs version is Emacs 22, anyway.

> Emacs policy toward those users is "Upgrade Emacs or lose support",
> which is reasonable, given resource constraints ... but it is not
> XEmacs's policy.

No, XEmacs' policy is that there is no support to start with...  Anyway,
I find your spinning remarkable: AUCTeX is still supported for Emacs 21
(meaning versions of Emacs that are more than 5 years old).  There is no
support for XEmacs versions of that age.

Your musings are out of touch with reality.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum