XEmacs began as a plain GUI version of emacs, but has
a separate group of developers. XEmacs does some things differently from its commandline
parent. Generally speaking, XEmacs is faster for adding new features and does not
require packagers to assign copyright to the Free Software Foundation, which administers
the GNU Project.
Some of the Others
You don??™t need to follow the crowd when choosing an editor. Choices are not limited to
the big two. Take these for a spin:
. ed??”The first Unix line editor. It opens by default in viewing/command mode and is
the reason vi does the same. You could put it in the vi-clones category, if it didn??™t
predate vi. If you need a shell script to edit or perform commands on some text, ed
is the editor to invoke. It??™s fast and functional for basic line editing.
. Joe??”You say you can??™t decide whether emacs or vi is cooler? Do you still remember
all those WordStar commands and macros? You just might love Joe??™s Own Editor.
Joe is a flexible beast that wants to work the way you want it to. It can emulate any
of the previously mentioned editors with a simple command switch.
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