whats your opinion on XEmacs? I find it surprising that they went to the trouble of re-writing Emacs from scratch and still used Emacs Lisp. I think that XEmacs has provided a good rivalry for Emacs, both these editors have stolen ideas from eachother.
re-writing Emacs from scratch
It's a fork of GNU Emacs 19.
It was a good rival for GNU Emacs years ago, but now Emacs has all the things that where XEmacs-only.
Emacs 24 will have packages and there's the lexbind branch which aims to give lexical scoping to Emacs Lisp. Just use GNU Emacs.
XEmacs should stop dispersing their effort and go back to developing GNU/Emacs which already implements everything XEmacs implements and does it better. This way there is some chance the dying GNU Emacs will stop being dying and become more usable in post-1990 world.
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Anonymous2011-01-03 13:37
>>2
I will not use GNU Emacs in protest against GPL communist Richard Stallman
>>2 and there's the lexbind branch which aims to give lexical scoping to Emacs Lisp
lisp is such an extensible language Im surprised that wasnt added a long time ago. I dont know anything about Emacs Lisp but I'll bet it would be possible to add functions and special forms that add all the features of Emacs Lisp to Guile
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There's lexical-let from emacs-cl and various ways to mimic lexical scoping.
But as far as I understood, they're implementing it at bytecode level. It will support both dynamic and lexical scoping, making it backwards compatible.
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I hope you're not talking about Emacs because the GUI is completely optional even if most people use it.
My Emacs isn't even compiled with any kind of GUI support.
I use it solely from a terminal.
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Anonymous2013-01-19 23:14
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