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Wait, what?

> This release is the first beta release since 2013.

Ah, that explains it. XEmacs was my choice when getting into Usenet (for Gnus), because the character set and Windows support was much better than that of GNU Emacs.

I don't really miss XEmacs, but it's always cool when old programs still get some love.

In a past life for a short while (around 2006/2008'ish I'd say) I used XEmacs instead of Emacs because XEmacs could do one thing Emacs couldn't: real-time "Relax NG" schema validation.

It was kinda a big deal for me back then as I was working, IIRC, on DocBook documents which were validated using a Relax NG schema.

> I don't really miss XEmacs, but it's always cool when old programs still get some love.

I agree. But then I'm using Emacs daily. I'd miss XEmacs much more if I hadn't the opportunity to use Emacs! Still, as you sa, it's good to see XEmacs getting some love.

You're probably referring to the wonderful nXML mode, which has been a part of stock Emacs for years now: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/nxml-mod...
> You're probably referring to the wonderful nXML mode

But wasn't there an issue where early nxml mode for Emacs would not support the Relax NG using the XML syntax? I vaguely remember the compact Relax NG syntax being supported but not the XML one. And for whatever reason that XML syntax for Relax NG was supported under XEmacs.

It was really a long time ago so my memory is very fussy but something like that. Since then I switched back to Emacs and I do use nxml-mode (I don't use Relax NG anymore though).

The web page still has a statement on Year 2000 compliance. Quaint.
If you follow through to the GNU statement, it says this:

> This 32-bit count will overflow in 2038; but there will be no problem in that year, because by then all systems will have redefined time_t to be a 64-bit integer.

[x] doubt

- Sent from my IPv6-only router, 2038
Congratulations, Xemacs was my main editor in the FreeBSD 3.x/4.x days. But GNU Emacs caught up and development stopped. IIRC it was UTF-8 issues that froze it.

I will need to take a peek at Xemacs and I hope to see it move on to a release.

Kohlrabi. 'nuff said.
Delicious. I have one nearing harvesting size out in the garden right now. They do look like aliens from outer space though.
What year is it?! This is quite the suprise.
I used XEmacs for that brief period when it supported antialiased text, but GNU Emacs didn't. I'm glad there are still people using and working on XEmacs.
> I'm glad there are still people using and working on XEmacs.

Asking seriously: why? I remember that maintaining XEmacs compatibility in some Emacs packages (I think it was AUCTeX, not sure) was an additional burden on the maintainers. Given that the userbase of XEmacs is probably very, very small, it would make sense to divert the efforts here towards GNU Emacs, no?

The only reason I can think of to think that it's good that XEmacs is still maintained is that one does not think FSF does TRT politically and/or technically. Is that your reason?

No, not at all. I just appreciate its uniqueness. I don't think elisp package maintainers should spend any effort on XEmacs compatibility.
I see. Given the low number of contributors and large needs... let me disagree.
Since rms influence on GNU Emacs got smaller, XEmacs features and much more got added into GNU emacs and people switched. Nowadays I see no reason to use this old dinosaur
Can't say that I expected this. Wasn't there some fork that also stopped development years ago (SXEmacs, maybe)? I remember using XEmacs more in my early Linux days, I think it did color syntax highlighting in the terminal earlier than GNUmacs 19.xx…

If surprised come in threes, I'd be hard-pressed what to nominate for the remaining two, especiall now that Duke Nukem ain't a meme anymore. A usable Hurd? A new WordStar? An expandable, consumer level desktop Mac? Perl with built-in OO?

>A new WordStar?

I'd settle for zde17

A new wordstar would be so far from the original ideals that it'd be useless.

Nice to see XEmacs still around.

Back in 1995 it allowed me some confort on UNIX systems, away from Borland IDEs.