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XEmacs is fork of GNU Emacs, providing much of the same functionality. XEmacs development is stagnant.

XEmacs is a fork of GNU Emacs, created in the late 1980's with an emphasis on incorporating "modern" editor capabilities (colors, images, menus, etc.). Most of the functionality originally available in XEmacs is now available in GNU Emacs, and development of XEmacs appears relatively stagnant.

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What functionality is missing in GNU Emacs when compared to XEmacs?

In terms of functionality, what are the key points that presently distinguish XEmacs from GNU Emacs? To account for the different release schedules the most recent development version of each Emacs flavor should be considered as the basis for…
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Is XEmacs source code repository indeed lost?

Even though BitBucket service warned everyone quite in advance that it would stop hosting Mercurial repositories, it seems that in many months no-one bothered to convert XEmacs repository to Git. The instructions at xemacs.org are but obsolete…
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