At Sun, 9 Oct 2005 16:46:46 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: > I've never tried Xemacs - are there any traps for young players when > installing both?
Not really. Default values for some options are different between the two, as are some elisp package versions and unusual keybindings (M-g is one that springs to mind). The way you enable/disable some features (like global font-locking) is a little different, so a complex .emacs probably won't work without modification. Faces (fonts, etc) have a totally different implementation, which is mostly hidden by the elisp functions. XEmacs defaults to using "zmacs" regions, where the region is only "active" until the next command then it goes away (C-x C-x will get it back though). The XEmacs `vc-mode' is a fork of a much older version and can't have new version control tools (like svn or tla) added in at run time. XEmacs comes with gnuserv/gnuclient so you can attach to running xemacs instances. I believe this is only available as an addon to GNU emacs, so it may change the way you use (x)emacs a bit. Apparently GNU emacs doesn't have the ability to know when one of its buffers is obscured - the XEmacs `pop-to-buffer' is significantly better, which has a subtle affect all over emacs. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
