I'm getting myself confused. I like Xemacs much better than emacs, but after reading some of the editorials by RMS, I'm beginning to feel that I should use Emacs, even though I don't like it as well...
References?
prakash on 2004-03-22T19:34:29
Can you post any specific references where RMS talks about XEmacs?
Thanks,
/prakash
Re:References?
jdavidboyd on 2004-03-23T12:01:02
Here's a quick one:
At http://www.xemacs.org/About/XEmacsVsGNUemacs.html
Go down to The FSF Point Of View.
I'll send some others along if I have time to re-find them...
Dave
Um...
zatoichi on 2004-03-23T03:16:55
You *are* kiddin us right?
Re:Um...
jdavidboyd on 2004-03-25T14:48:52
Well, no, I wasn't...
Should I have been?
Am I missing something obvious about the software?
Dave
Odd...
While I vastly prefer Emacs to XEmacs, or did ~10 years ago when I chose the one over the other, RMS's unreasonable and holier-than-thou attitude (cf emails on JWZ's site) almost tempts me to switch to XEmacs. That said, however, I think you're better off choosing an editor based on its text-editing ability, not its ideological purity or its author's (open-source-)political views. At the least, you could weigh the value of that purity against the value of the time it would take you to modify Emacs to make it enough like XEmacs.
