Emacs vs. XEmacs

[Jens Petersen]

Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> That FC4 will contain only Emacs, not XEmacs, is fine with me - in
> principle.  However the XEmacs distribution contains the sumo package

[As Ville already mentioned, xemacs and xemacs-sumo are in
Fedora Extras Devel already for fc4.]

> which contains important packages like auctex. Currently auctex is not
> part of FC4. Maybe there should be a package similar to sumo, but for
> Emacs.

Agreed.  I have long thought that something like sumo for Emacs
would be very useful.  Actually one of the main reasons I have been
an XEmacs user for so long is due to the sumo distributions I would
say.

It would certainly be something worthwhile doing for Extras IMHO,
and in the long term it could perhaps make its way into core if
that would be desirable.  Or better if someone with the time and interest
could maintain independently the package collection for emacs
(like xemacs-sumo) that would be a good service to the Emacs community
I think.  Perhaps starting from xemacs-{,mule-}sumo packages would
be easiest.

Debian also has something called emacs-goodies-el which is more a
collection of single file elisp libraries afaics, which may also be
worth looking at.

Jens