[ESS-bugs] Xemacs initialization bug

[Stephen Eglen]

On Tue, Sep 24 2013, Martin Maechler wrote:

> A year ago, we wrote  (in the ESS documentation):
>
>    Changes/New Features in 12.09:
>
>    * Due to XEmacs lacking some features that ESS requires, ESS support
>      of XEmacs ends with ESS 12.04-4.  This decision will be re-visited
>      in the future as XEmacs continues to sync with GNU Emacs.
>
> and we have not re-visited that decision yet, ... well, I have not at least...
>
> So, we are sorry, but  you are on your own here.
> Martin

Could you (Phillip) elaborate perhaps on why you prefer to use XEmacs?  

Stephen