ole mengshoel wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone ported the ACLW Editi interface for Win-Emacs to Gnu Emacs
> > 19.34.1? I find Win-Emacs 1.5 to be too outdated and too unstable on NT
> > 4.0 to use.
> 
> If such a port exists, I'd certainly be interested in learning about it
> too ...
> 
> That said, I'm currently using Win-Emacs with Allegro under NT 4.0,
> and stability (of WIn-Emacs) is not a big problem.  Intuitively,
> I'd agree on the outdated part, since GNU Emacs is more standard
> and seems to be more up-to-date, but what does this really boil down to?
> That is what can you do in GNU EMacs that you can't do in Win-Emacs?
> 
> If there are convincing points, it might be easier to talk people into
> helping with a port of ACLW Editi from Win-Emacs to GNU Emacs.
> 

The stability problem I was experiencing may be a red herring. Win-Emacs
was very unstable after I upgraded to 4.0, but I just reinstalled it and
so far it is working fine.

With regard to the larger issue of the desirability of porting Editi to
Gnu Emacs, I can only say that there seems to be a lot of activity
around the Gnu Win-32 project and the Win-32 port of Gnu Emacs, whereas
there is no evidence of any at Pearlsoft.

Win-emacs is at least 10 releases behind Xemacs, and Pearlsoft's Website
has not been updated in more than a year. However, the Win-32 port of
Gnu Emacs is at the current revision, and several people are working on
porting packages and utilities for Win-32 Gnu Emacs. See the faq at:  

    http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html

I am not aware of any similar effort to port current Xemacs packages to
Win-32. Am I out of touch on this point? Voelker did a nice job of
porting Gnu Emacs. I would like to be able to use it as my development
environment.

-dale
<uchicago.edu at d-arntson>