[R] XEmacs vs. GNU Emacs?

[Liaw, Andy]

If you are on Windoze, there is one possibly important difference: object
name completion in ESS is fast in XEmacs.  In NTEmacs it's so slow that I
used to think that Emacs had frozen.

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rossini at blindglobe.net [mailto:rossini at blindglobe.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:45 PM
> To: Martin Henry H. Stevens
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] XEmacs vs. GNU Emacs?
> 
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> >>>>> "martin" == Martin Henry H Stevens <HStevens at muohio.edu> writes:
> 
>     martin> As a user of only R, I don't use much of the 
> potential of ESS and
>     martin> Emacs. Without entering a religious feud, is 
> there any reason I should
>     martin> use XEmacs rather than my current GNU Emacs?
> 
> Practically, the difference lies between "gloss" and clean/fast, at
> least in the older versions.
> 
> I can't think of any other issue that is practical, in deciding
> between them.   Most of the XEmacs features (along with "more"), were
> incorporates in the Emacs 21.x series.  
> 
> I think XEmacs is more user friendly and better (I'm not sure how well
> Emacs handles color within terminal shells, which is important for me,
> probably not for others), but I'm severely biased, so be a Bayesian
> about the information.
> 
> Emacs is fine and acceptable.
> 
> best,
> -tony
> 
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