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What is XEmacs?
XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and
application development system. It is licensed under the GNU
Public License and related to other versions of Emacs, in
particular
GNU Emacs
.
Its emphasis is on modern graphical user
interface support and an open software development model, similar
to Linux. XEmacs runs on Windows 95 and NT, Linux and nearly
every other version of Unix in existence. Support for XEmacs
was supplied by Sun Microsystems,
University of Illinois
,
Lucid, ETL/Electrotechnical Laboratory,
Amdahl Corporation, BeOpen, and others, as well as the unpaid
time of a great number of individual developers.
XEmacs Community News
- 2023-08-08
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Administering the XEmacs mailing lists,
https://list-archive.xemacs.org/
has been difficult for several years, given the limited support of
Mailman3 for integrating spam filtering and its limited support on the
administrative side for dealing with large volumes of spam building up
to be deleted.
Running a mailing list at all for XEmacs is no longer relevant given
how common use of
Gmail
is for
receiving email, and the
extreme difficulty
in having Gmail accept forwarded email in a
reliable manner. The volume of spam received by the XEmacs lists means
that eventually some will get through to Gmail, and that endangers
further mail delivery to Gmail from the forwarding mail server.
As a result, I do not plan to reactivate the XEmacs mailing
lists. Please post discussion to the newsgroup
comp.emacs.xemacs
, also available as
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.emacs.xemacs
on Google Groups.
- 2023-05-17
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As of 2020, XEmacs development moved to
Heptapod
(thank you Mike
Sperber, thank you Heptapod). The relevant Mercurial repositories are
available under
https://foss.heptapod.net/xemacs/
;
most importantly, the current development trunk is available to check
out under
https://foss.heptapod.net/xemacs/xemacs
. Please
use the issue tracker there for bug reports.
- 2023-05-13
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XEmacs 21.5 beta 35 "kohlrabi" has been released. See
the release notes
for
more details.
- 2017-03-11
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Since the late 1990s, before spam became the problem it is at the
moment, we have offered @xemacs.org addresses to participants in the
project. Following the infrastructure problems of 2016, these
haven't in general been restored—most of them function more as
spam traps rather than legitimate email addresses.
Should you have had an @xemacs.org address and should you like to
have it restored, get in touch with me at
kehoea@parhasard.net
.
Current XEmacs Core Releases
Problem reports and requests for enhancement may be filed at the
new
XEmacs issue tracking system
.
XEmacs 21.4 has been promoted to
stable
, and the XEmacs
21.1 series has been retired. For those with classic taste, these
historical
releases
are still available. We will continue to support, at a lower
level, 21.1 users. See the
announcement of 21.4.12
for
details.
- Stable
branch:
- 21.4.22
- Beta
branch:
- 21.5.35
Current XEmacs Package Releases
See the
Quickstart
Package Guide
for information about the XEmacs package system.
It is a feature differentiating XEmacs from GNU Emacs by allowing
us to deploy bug fixes and enhancements of our lisp packages on a
separate, usually faster, schedule than core XEmacs releases.
- Official
Release:
- 2009-02-17
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