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XEmacs is fork of GNU Emacs, providing much of the same functionality. XEmacs development is stagnant.

XEmacs is a fork of GNU Emacs, created in the late 1980's with an emphasis on incorporating "modern" editor capabilities (colors, images, menus, etc.). Most of the functionality originally available in XEmacs is now available in GNU Emacs, and development of XEmacs appears relatively stagnant.

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What functionality is missing in GNU Emacs when compared to XEmacs?

In terms of functionality, what are the key points that presently distinguish XEmacs from GNU Emacs? To account for the different release schedules the most recent development version of each Emacs flavor should be considered as the basis for…
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Is XEmacs source code repository indeed lost?

Even though BitBucket service warned everyone quite in advance that it would stop hosting Mercurial repositories, it seems that in many months no-one bothered to convert XEmacs repository to Git. The instructions at xemacs.org are but obsolete…
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company-mode clang error

I am following this tutorial When having enabled company-node upon typing for instance std::vec I get error message in the mini buffer saying: clang failed with error 1: /usr/bin/clang -fsyntax-only -Xclang -code-completion-macros -x c++ -Xclang…
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Install org module on XEmacs

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04. I installed XEmacs 21.4 (patch 22) I want to use org module BUT fail to install/configure it. In my case I don't use .emacs but rather I have ~/.xemacs/custom.el where I keep all my settings. org module did not exist…
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Error in dired-find-file-place when saving

I've been an Emacs user for 30 years. This week I'm switching to a new machine with Ubuntu 21.10 installed. Now when I save a file, it always errors out with the error message: "Error in dired-find-file-place" (nothing more, nothing less). In half…
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converting xemacs lisp to run in emacs

I have used xemacs for years and have a lot of lisp code I have written. Now I want to switch to emacs and convert all the lisp code over to work in emacs. This is on an winXP machine. I'm sure I am not the first one to convert code back and forth.…
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Upgrade to 16.04 incomplete because of Xemacs

Yesterday, I ran an upgrade from 12.04.5 over 14.04.5 to 16.04.1. The first step (12.04.5 --> 14.04.5) worked quite well, no relevant problems. But the second step failed due to problems with some packages, hereunder XEmacs. Here's the log that…
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is there a dired-like mode that behaves like XEmacs' dired

Having mostly switched to Emacs, I still sorely miss the dired mode of XEmacs. As far as I can tell, XEmacs' dired started from dired-x (not Emacs' dired) many years ago and then drifted away, so I guess that dired-x (that now has drifted away from…
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why is save-buffer asking for a chmod?

All of sudden, XEmacs 21.4.22 starts asking whether it should chmod a+x $f everytime I try to save a buffer that is in Shell-script mode. Switching it to fundamental-mode stops that behaviour. enabling shell-script-mode again doesn't make the…
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