David Dyer-Bennet writes: >Joshua Kronengold <mneme at io.com> writes: >> David Silberstein writes: >> >On Thu Oct 16th, 2003 9:58 PM, Steve Brust weblogged: >> >] In more important news, I'm fighting to get Xemacs working >> >] like my old emacs, so I can continue on the next Vlad novel. >> I actually think that current FSF Emacsen are much better than recent >> Xemacs releases -- FSF has caught up a lot, and better syntax >> highlighing has really pushed me over the edge. >Then you'll be glad to know I got him switched over to one of those >yesterday. And our old hacks to support Sprint file format editing in >Emacs still seem to work, which they didn't in Xemacs. Well, I am, especially since it means the next Vlad novel is that much more likely to get finished... :) Very cool (yes, Xemacs seems to have a lot of neat ideas behind it, but it really does change a lot of the basic mechanics behind how Emacs works, while FSF Emacs avoids breaking compatibility a lot more; that FSF is also catching up/surpassing xemacs in the featurism department (ie, stealing feature concepts from xemacs that were a good idea, and discarding the rest) is simply a very nice bonus). -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme at io.com) "I've been teaching |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) --^--him...to live, to breathe, to walk, to sample the /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\joy on each road, and the sorrow at each turning. |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ /-\\\I'm sorry if I kept him out too late"--Vlad Taltos '---''(_/--' (_/-'