XEmacs 21.5.35 “kohlrabi” is released

https://www.xemacs.org/Releases/21.5.35.html

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GameWarrior@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Wow I didn’t realize that xEmacs was still maintained

wlfrn@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3y

is this what "maintenance mode" looks like? The change log is huge

from wikipedia:

In December 2015 ... or putting the project in maintenance mode in case someone wants to restart development in the future.[26] This last option was the direction decided ...

4ffy@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y

Well that's a surprise.

I think XEmacs is a bit of a hard sell given the massive improvements to GNU Emacs in the last few years. But surely there are still XEmacs users who think their setup just works for them.

samc@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 3y

Huh, TIL that XEmacs is still going. Sorry to be that guy, but what would the sales pitch be for XEmacs to a GNU Emacs user?