[Cialug] Text editor

[Tim Wilson]

You might have to do some customization to your .emacs file and any
other custom start files you might have if you switch to XEmacs.
There are some differences between them, for the most part XEmacs has
everything Emacs has, but it may do it a different way.  But the
reverse isn't true.  There are ways to conditionally execute parts of
the start files when running both Emacs and XEmacs, but you would have
to look those up.  You might try looking at http://www.emacswiki.org/.
They might have some info there.

On 12/21/06, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> It is plain emacs. I'm under the (possibly mistaken) impression that
> modern versions of emacs don't need mule since it has been integrated.
> I'm using version 21.4 installed as part of Debian Etch. There doesn't
> seem to be a separate emacs-mule package. Here's what the apt-cache
> search commands find on my system:
>
> $ apt-cache search japan | grep editor
> ipe - drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or PS formats
> qgo - Go client and full featured SGF editor
> xemacs21-gnome-mule - highly customizable text editor -- Mule binary
> xemacs21-mule - highly customizable text editor -- Mule binary
> $ apt-cache search utf-8 | grep editor
> gedit - light-weight text editor
> gedit-dev - light-weight text editor
> geresh - A simple multilingual text editor with utf-8 & bidi support
> mousepad - simple Xfce oriented text editor
> ne - Nice Editor, an easy-to-use and powerful editor
> poedit - cross-platform gettext catalog editor
>
> Perhaps i should try xemacs; i expect it would be quite similar to what
> i am used to. I've never used xemacs, but my understanding is that it
> is just a fork of emacs. I don't know why there needs to be 2 variants
> of emacs floating around, but if it works i won't complain.
>
> On Thursday 21 December 2006 08:57, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> >is this vanilla emacs, or emacs-mule (apt-cache search japan | grep
> > editor)?
> >
> >apt-cache search utf-8 | grep editor shows:
> >gedit
> >geresh
> >ne
> >poedit
> >
> >-barry
> >
> >Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> >> I'm looking for a recommendation for a programming editor. I usually
> >> use emacs. But now i need an editor that can handle Japanese
> >> characters and save the resulting file using utf-8 encoding. Emacs
> >> handles Japanese just fine. And emacs handles saving in utf-8, with
> >> the exception that it can't handle the subset of utf-8 that is
> >> needed by Asian languages. If a file has Japanese characters in it,
> >> emacs won't save as utf-8 and insists on another encoding (such as
> >> iso-2022-jp or euc-jp). Any suggestions for another editor that i
> >> should look at?
> >>
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Tim