From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7488 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Z Maze Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis? Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:30:21 -0400 Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Message-ID: References: <2r4f82pi5bsuiv9qfkacrs6hej6iva56u9@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149777637 486 80.91.229.2 (8 Jun 2006 14:40:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 08 16:40:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FoLgN-0004a0-Ih for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:40:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FoLgN-00009S-2u for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:40:23 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!dreaderd!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/90snbSFVFa9VkE9LtRkBdI8xLY= Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: CONTENTS-VNDER-PRESSVRE.MIT.EDU Original-X-Trace: 1149777021 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 570 18.7.16.67 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77670 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7488 Archived-At: me@privacy.net writes: > Now is this plain eMacs? > > Isn't there something called Xemacs as well? "Same thing, but different." If memory serves, XEmacs started life as a branch from "normal" ("FSF" or "GNU") Emacs over frustration on getting one of the older releases out. It's historically had a little better support for inlined images, proportional fonts, and the like, at the cost of supporting those features differently from "normal" Emacs when it's added them in as well. XEmacs's other advantage is that it comes with an add-on bundle of approximately every elisp package out there; "normal" Emacs is much more conservative about what can be included (due to likely-justified license paranoia: while people complain about the Linux kernel being of dubious heritage, all code distributed with Emacs has had copyright assigned to the FSF). My current feel is that XEmacs doesn't offer a whole lot that's not in Emacs, and my normal environment makes it a little easier to use Emacs. Gnus supports both fine, including adapting to whichever emacs is currently being used. --dzm [hoping he used the correct terminology to refer to the emacsen]