pretty emacs

[Marc Schwartz]

Leo wrote:
> ----- Marc Schwartz (2007-04-26) wrote:-----
> 
>>> Here's to a quick merge of the unicode branch and a release speedier
>>> than 22...
>> Indeed!
>>
>> Emacs with gtk2/xft is a thing of beauty...  :-)
>>
>> I had actually tried XEmacs with the xft patch some time ago, but it
>> crashed rather frequently and usually at the most inopportune times
>> (thanks to Mr. Murphy...).
> 
> XEmacs does not have as many developers as GNU Emacs. In fact the
> development is inactive for a long time. I guess it is now better to use
> GNU Emacs as it is better.

Yeah, there does seem to be a stagnation of late, with references to 
that effect on the relevant usenet groups.

There was some leapfrogging between the two for a while, but emacs seems 
to have taken a steady and prolonged leap in front.

Regards,

Marc