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- >>>>> On Wed, 26 May 1993 16:14:18 GMT, hines@brooklyn.fishkill.ibm.com (Charles Hines) said:
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- >My first impressions of FSF v19 vs. Lucid Emacs 19: I liked having
- >scroll bars and having horizontally-split windows, selective display
- >etc. working, but the FSF menus are *tacky*. IMHO it's high time FSF
- >emacs began to use XT and widgets properly -- anyone who has X has XT
- >anyway. Lucid's event and keymap implementation is generally better.
- >
- >In the Lisp library, however, FSF emacs was much more polished. Lucid
- >Emacs's Lisp is (except for that which had to be changed due to
- >changes in Lucid's C code) largely v18 with a hodgepodge of seperate
- >packages tied on.
- >
- >The GNU documentation was better, too.
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- Charles> I also liked the scrollbars, but the menus were horrid. And why did they
- Charles> choose to not go with motif or lucids motif style widgets for the menus
- Charles> and the scrollbars?
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- Motif cost money! Is the lucid widget stuff free? What are the
- licensing restrictions on this?
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- Charles> I would love the next version of LucidEmacs to have the capability to
- Charles> place vertical & horizontal scroll bars (motif style) on each edit area.
- Charles> Any plans for this?
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- That would be a very welcome addition, that would help convert a lot
- of anti-emacs types around here.
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