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What is XEmacs?
XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and
application development system. It is licensed 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 runs on Windows 95 and NT, Linux and nearly
every other version of Unix in existence. Support for XEmacs
was 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.
XEmacs Community News
- 2017-03-11
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Since the late 1990s, before spam became the problem it is at the
moment, we have offered @xemacs.org addresses to participants in the
project. Following the infrastructure problems of 2016, these
haven't in general been restored—most of them function more as
spam traps rather than legitimate email addresses.
Should you have had an @xemacs.org address and should you like to
have it restored, get in touch with by sending email to kehoea at
the domain parhasard.net.
- 2017-03-03
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The XEmacs mailing lists are back up! Our subscriber list wasn't
available to restore, unfortunately, so please re-subscribe over
HTTP at https://lists.xemacs.org/. The
list archives are available at https://list-archive.xemacs.org;
a decent proportion of them have been restored, back to 1998 in many
cases, but I would be grateful for other archives, my own was
incomplete. Contact me by email
using kehoea at the domain parhasard.net.
- 2016-12-27
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XEmacs had an unfortunate 2016, with our web, mail, and FTP provider
becoming unreachable and its maintainers unresponsive early in the
year. Happily, Bitbucket.org, our
Mercurial hosting provider, remained available throughout. We're glad
of the service, thank you Bitbucket!
The web and FTP sites are now (late December 2016) back up, and we
should have our lists and mail addresses available again soon.
- 2013-03-28
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XEmacs has applied to be a
mentoring organization in
Google Summer of code. Here's our
Ideas Page. Candidates
are encouraged to contact us at any time. Earlier is
better, because community-building is an explicit goal of the
Summer of Code. Active participation in XEmacs development is a
more important criterion than your current skill set!
- 2012-01-04
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We've moved the XEmacs source code (and the source code of the
packages and the website) to
Bitbucket. See
this page for details.
- 2008-02-10
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XEmacs joins the 21st century with a new
issue
tracker. The User Guide is available
online.
- 2007-10-23
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Thank you, http://centurionhosting.net/,
for joining the happy flock of XEmacs website mirrors with
theirs, serving the Czech
Republic!
- 2007-09-24
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FKtPp and his friend have set up an XEmacs FTP Site mirror at
ftp://ftp.cn.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/.
XEmacs users in China now have a "local" mirror to download
from! Thank you, FKtPp!
- 2007-09-12
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digimirror of the
Netherlands have created mirrors of the XEmacs Website at http://xemacs.digimirror.nl/
and the XEmacs FTP Site (HTTP access only!) at http://xemacsftp.digimirror.nl/.
Thanks a lot!
- 2007-08-15
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Max Bear adds a website mirror, http://xemacs.site2nd.org/,
in Texas, USA, and might followup with a ftp site mirror as
well. Thank you!
is.xemacs.org is taking some time off, but will return before long.
We now have a functional primary FTP mirror in the US again
(http://ftp.us.xemacs.org/pub/mirrors/xemacs/).
We're grateful to www.ibiblio.org, a
collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for filling the gap.
We have a functional primary FTP mirror in the UK again
(http://ftp.uk.xemacs.org/sites/ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/).
Thanks to the University of Kent UKMIRROR service (http://www.mirrorservice.org/).
FTP mirrors ftp.pl.xemacs.org and sunsite.sut.ac.jp have not been functional for a while and have now been removed.
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
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Asia
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Australia
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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. See the
announcement of 21.4.12 for
details.
- Stable branch:
- 21.4.22
- Beta branch:
- 21.5.34
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.
- Official Release:
- 2009-02-17
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