From: Stefan Kangas Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:21:28 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Make XEmacs entry in the FAQ more contemporary X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.90~4709 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2f1441cbe3ccd49037e2464485658f7f20f3d804;p=emacs.git Make XEmacs entry in the FAQ more contemporary * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Difference between Emacs and XEmacs): Make XEmacs entry in the FAQ more contemporary. Remove part about re-using XEmacs code; this is not likely to be relevant these days and in any case is not a frequently asked question. (Bug#45235) --- diff --git a/doc/misc/efaq.texi b/doc/misc/efaq.texi index 06a17d9c468..83c0a19d391 100644 --- a/doc/misc/efaq.texi +++ b/doc/misc/efaq.texi @@ -3390,7 +3390,7 @@ problem (@pxref{Reporting bugs}). * Packages that do not come with Emacs:: * Spell-checkers:: * Current GNU distributions:: -* Difference between Emacs and XEmacs:: +* What was XEmacs?:: * Emacs for minimalists:: * Emacs for MS-DOS:: * Emacs for MS-Windows:: @@ -3526,35 +3526,21 @@ A list of sites mirroring @samp{ftp.gnu.org} can be found at @uref{https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp} -@node Difference between Emacs and XEmacs -@section What is the difference between Emacs and XEmacs (formerly Lucid Emacs)? +@node What was XEmacs? +@section What was XEmacs? @cindex XEmacs -@cindex Difference Emacs and XEmacs -@cindex Lucid Emacs -@cindex Epoch XEmacs was a branch version of Emacs that is no longer actively -developed. XEmacs was first called Lucid Emacs, and was initially -derived from a prerelease version of Emacs 19. In this FAQ, we use -the name ``Emacs'' only for the official version. - -XEmacs last released a new version on January 30, 2009, and it lacks -many important features that exists in Emacs. In the past, it was not -uncommon for Emacs packages to include code for compatibility with -XEmacs. Nowadays, although some packages still maintain such -compatibility code, several of the more popular built-in and third -party packages have either stopped supporting XEmacs or were developed -exclusively for Emacs. +developed. XEmacs last released a new version on January 30, 2009, +and it lacks many important features that exist in Emacs. Since its +development has stopped, we do not expect to see any new releases. -Some XEmacs code has been contributed to Emacs, and we would like to -use other parts, but the earlier XEmacs maintainers did not always -keep track of the authors of contributed code, which makes it -impossible for the FSF to get copyright papers signed for that code. -(The FSF requires these papers for all the code included in the Emacs -release, aside from generic C support packages that retain their -separate identity and are not integrated into the code of Emacs -proper.) +In the past, it was not uncommon for Emacs packages to include code +for compatibility with XEmacs. Nowadays, most built-in and third party +packages have either stopped supporting XEmacs or were developed +exclusively for Emacs. +XEmacs was initially derived from a prerelease version of Emacs 19. If you want to talk about these two versions and distinguish them, please call them ``Emacs'' and ``XEmacs.'' To contrast ``XEmacs'' with ``GNU Emacs'' would be misleading, since XEmacs too has its