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> I'm glad there are still people using and working on XEmacs. Asking seriously: why? I remember that maintaining XEmacs compatibility in some Emacs packages (
by mbork_pl 3y ago
> I'm glad there are still people using and working on XEmacs.
Asking seriously: why? I remember that maintaining XEmacs compatibility in some Emacs packages (I think it was AUCTeX, not sure) was an additional burden on the maintainers. Given that the userbase of XEmacs is probably very, very small, it would make sense to divert the efforts here towards GNU Emacs, no?
The only reason I can think of to think that it's good that XEmacs is still maintained is that one does not think FSF does TRT politically and/or technically. Is that your reason?
- NoGravitas 3y agoNo, not at all. I just appreciate its uniqueness. I don't think elisp package maintainers should spend any effort on XEmacs compatibility.
- mbork_pl 3y agoI see. Given the low number of contributors and large needs... let me disagree.