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| author | Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> | 2019-10-18 22:16:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> | 2019-10-20 15:18:07 +0200 |
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Update FAQ entry on XEmacs (Bug#37815)
* doc/misc/efaq.texi (Difference between Emacs and XEmacs): Update
section to reflect the current state of affairs. XEmacs is not
actively developed and is lacking many important features of Emacs.
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diff --git a/doc/misc/efaq.texi b/doc/misc/efaq.texi index 4a98379fc2e..b45db4c84fe 100644 --- a/doc/misc/efaq.texi +++ b/doc/misc/efaq.texi @@ -3571,15 +3571,18 @@ A list of sites mirroring @samp{ftp.gnu.org} can be found at @cindex Lucid Emacs @cindex Epoch -XEmacs is a branch version of Emacs. It was first called Lucid Emacs, -and was initially derived from a prerelease version of Emacs 19. In -this FAQ, we use the name ``Emacs'' only for the official version. - -Emacs and XEmacs each come with Lisp packages that are lacking in the -other. The two versions have some significant differences at the Lisp -programming level. Their current features are roughly comparable, -though the support for some operating systems, character sets and -specific packages might be quite different. +XEmacs was a branch version of Emacs that is no longer actively +developed. XEmacs was first called Lucid Emacs, and was initially +derived from a prerelease version of Emacs 19. In this FAQ, we use +the name ``Emacs'' only for the official version. + +XEmacs last released a new version on January 30, 2009, and it lacks +many important features that exists in Emacs. In the past, it was not +uncommon for Emacs packages to include code for compatibility with +XEmacs. Nowadays, although some packages still maintain such +compatibility code, several of the more popular built-in and third +party packages have either stopped supporting XEmacs or were developed +exclusively for Emacs. Some XEmacs code has been contributed to Emacs, and we would like to use other parts, but the earlier XEmacs maintainers did not always |