[ESS] R-Xemacs ESS printing issue
Rodney Sparapani
rsparapa at mcw.edu
Thu May 28 17:59:43 CEST 2009
Leo wrote:
> I agree with you not to further discuss the choices between these two
> variants. But I'd like to point out the following as my last post to
> this subject.
>
Glad you agree, but then you can't help yourself (and me neither)...
> 1. #Emacs channel has 1130 users while #XEmacs has 24;
What the hell is that? Honestly, I've been involved in XEmacs testing
and development for 9 years or so and I have never heard of that.
Maybe Emacs has so money bugs that it is generating tons of traffic :o)
> 2. the Emacs development branch commits 100 times more than XEmacs since 2005;
> 3. XEmacs's release packs much fewer features than Emacs. XEmacs just
> released a new development version, if you like you can compare it to
> Emacs 23.0.94 and be shocked.
>
Shocked how? Tell us more (I'm not joking, if there is magic,
let it be known). Did this email come from it's new AI package?
Are you a person or am I talking to Emacs :o)
> I think it is objective to say Emacs feature set is a super set of
> XEmacs and that's why I'm recommending it to new users.
>
> Leo
I disagree. The XEmacs package system is a killer feature that new
users can benefit from as much as anyone. 'nuff said.
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