Re: Oldest Emacs alive

[Fabrice Popineau]

2018-07-02 3:31 GMT+02:00 Filipp Gunbin <address@hidden>:

On 01/07/2018 10:17 +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote:

>     1. The dates for XEmacs should be, at least, 1994-2015. That was the
>        year (I think it was October when Steve Turnbull proposed to
>        close the project). I am however not sure about 1994, according
>        to my memory it should be 1992.
>
>     2. Aidan Kehoe continues to send patches to xemacs-beta and releases
>        xemacs 21.5. So you maybe you should talk to him whether Xemacs
>        is really dead or not. Maybe this concerns only the 21.4.X
>        series.

I wonder if there are any good technical ideas/solutions which were done
in XEmacs and could be added in GNU Emacs..  That would require, of
course, good knowledge of both.

Maybe this :

https://crestani.de/xemacs/pdf/thesis-newgc.pdf

How does it compare to the current GNU EMacs GC ?

Fabrice