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What is XEmacs?
XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and
application development system. It is protected 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 has an
active development community numbering in the hundreds, and runs on
Windows 95 and NT, Linux and nearly every other version of Unix in
existence. Support for XEmacs has been 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.
Web and FTP hosting graciously provided by Sourceforge, SunSITE and tux as
well as many world-wide FTP
site and Web
site mirrors.
As a common saying goes: Objects
in mirror are closer than they appear.
XEmacs Website Mirrors exist on following continents. Pick the
continent where your internet service provider resides, which is not
always the continent you may sit on. This is most likely to matter
when you work for an international company with no local internet
connection.
America . Asia . Australia . Europe
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.
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.
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Official Release
XEmacs Community News
- 2008-02-10
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XEmacs joins the 21st century with a new issue
tracker.
- 2007-12-03
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Thank you, Siam Web
Hosting, for mirroring the XEmacs website.
- 2007-06-23
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Users in Greece will be glad to hear the University
of Crete is now
providing an XEmacs website
mirror and ftp
site mirror. The next beta release of XEmacs with also know how to
download packages from this mirror site. Thank you, University of
Crete, for joining our growing list of XEmacs mirror sites!
- 2007-06-12
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Thanks to Internet
Services Unit Saudia
Arabia gets an XEmacs website
mirror and ftp
site mirror.
- 2005-12-18
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The XEmacs Development Team is pleased to announce a native
Windows installation kit for XEmacs-21.4.19, "Constant Variable",
the most recent of the stable XEmacs releases.
- 2005-12-17
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A new XEmacs website and ftp mirror is provided by HKMirror,
strengthening our accessibility in Asia. The XEmacs project thanks
HKMirror.org for their support!
- 2005-02-09
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We have a new Carbon (ie, native GUI) port of XEmacs to Mac OS
X! Thanks and kudos to Andrew Choi, whose work on the Mac OS X
port of GNU Emacs is well-known and highly praised. The port is
still experimental and available only as a 3rd-party patch as of
today, but a binary package is planned, and discussion is underway
as to how to best support Andrew's work and prepare it for merge
to mainline.
The patch and installation instructions are available at Andrew's
XEmacs page. Bug reports for Andrew should go to the newsgroup
comp.emacs.xemacs for now, but discussion of the port is also
occurring on the xemacs-beta mailing list.
- 2004-05-10
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Unnoticed by global media, IRC channel #xemacs,
hosted by freenodet,
has been officially registered on 28 April, 2004. Please use it to
discuss development issues requiring developer interaction. One of
the most popular IRC clients in the Emacs community is ERC (already
an XEmacs package).
- 2003-10-10
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The XEmacs Project notes with sadness the untimely passing of J.
Pitts Jarvis, III, of Palo Alto, CA. Jarvis was responsible for
the ports of XEmacs 19.14 to MacOS 8, and of XEmacs 21.5.9 to Mac
OS X (the "Carbon" branch). We will miss his presence as we
integrate his work.
- 2003-01-16
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XEmacs 21.4 has been promoted to stable,
and the XEmacs 21.1 series has been retired. Support for 21.1
users continues, at a lower level.
- 2002-10-24
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Our thanks go out to CICT (Centre
Interuniversitaire de Calcul de Toulouse) today for becoming our
French XEmacs website mirror and secondary XEmacs FTP mirror
of France.
- 2002-10-09
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KREONET (Korea Research
Environment Open NETwork) has been the Korean XEmacs FTP mirror
for some time and has now established a Korean XEmacs website
mirror. Thanks for mirroring us, KREONET!
- 2002-03-09
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Peter Brown, our new website sidekick, sets up a Namazu search
engine for the XEmacs website. Indexes get updated on each and
every commit to the website. Mailing
lists remain
searchable separately via their own interface.
- 2001-11-29
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Although GTK is still classed as experimental because the core
team has insufficient time to devote to it, Les Schaffer is
coordinating efforts to improve the support. Visit his GTK
XEmacs bugs page (it
disappeared between June and October 2004) for more information.
Thanks, Les!
- 2001-11-03
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All XEmacs CVS modules, among other projects, can now be
browsed via cvsweb (upgraded to ViewCVS access on 2002-01-16) at
the Anonymous CVS Repository at SunSITE.dk. See also Service
Issue 8. Details about CVS repository access are still in flux,
but documentation in Develop/packages.html will
be kept in sync with reality.
- 2001-08-15
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The xemacsweb CVS repository is moved from SourceForge (which
is no longer updated) to repository
at SunSITE to make
automatic website updates work again. See also Service
Issue 6.
- 2001-06-11
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Europe gets its own directly updating XEmacs website in
Denmark.
This new service is brought to us by SunSITE.
It updates automatically within minutes from CVS commits to the
website sources.
- 2001-04-16
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XEmacs 21.4.0 "Solid Vapor" is released.
- 2001-03-29
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Infodock, the industrial-strength IDE built on
XEmacs, has now opened a SourceForge
project. The current release of Infodock, 4.00.08, is based on
XEmacs 21.1.
- 2001-03-28
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The final release date for XEmacs 21.4 has been fixed for April
15th; see the Release
page for details.
- 2001-01-09
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The code base currently called ``XEmacs 21.2'' is now scheduled
for release on March 1,
2001. Prelease testing and development discussion are taking place
on xemacs-beta, the
open list for developers and beta testers. Come join the fun!
- 2000-11-09
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It's about time for a dashing piece of news: William M. Perry's
work (funded by BeOpen.com through sourceXchange), Gtk-XEmacs is
available via tarballs or directly from the XEmacs repository.
(N.B. This feature has been incorporated in the XEmacs mainline
since the 21.4.0 release.)
- 2000-07-01
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Steve Youngs, our XEmacs Packager from Downunder, reports: Andy
Piper can't have all the limelight. My daughter, Kaitlyn (a future
XEmacs hacker) was born July 1, 2000.
- 2000-05-12
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Congratulations to XEmacs hacker Andy Piper and his family on
the birth of William Piper on 5 May 2000!
- 2000-01-18
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Users of the MacOS are reported to be rejoicing wildly now that
a port of XEmacs 19.14 is
available for their platform of choice.
XEmacs has been nominated in the Slashdot
2000 Beanie Awards, in the Best Open Source Editor Category. We
urge all XEmacs users to vote for
their favorite editor.
- 1999-09-29
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The first public release of coffee-el allows
RFC2324-compliant coffee devices (Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control
Protocol, or HTCPCP) to be controlled from within XEmacs.
Coffee-drinking XEmacs users everywhere rejoice as their favorite
beverage is unified with their favorite editor.
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