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From: amoss@batata.Huji.AC.IL (amos shapira)
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Subject: Re: Gosling Emacs?
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Date: 15 Jan 90 07:01:06 GMT
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russ@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Russ) writes:

>A user on my system wants to run gosling emacs instead of gnu emacs.
>How does it differ from gnu emacs and where can I get the source code?
>Also, does anyone know of any articles or books that describe the
>different versions of emacs? Thanks for any information.

First, there is a gosling-emacs emulation mode in GNU emacs, run
set-gosmacs-bindings, you better convince your user to try this, it
will save you a lot of trouble mintaining gosling emacs, which I consider
as obsolate (although I'm using it right now to write this message :-).

Second, in the GNU emacs distribution directory there should be a file
called GOSDIFF (I think) which describes the differences between the
two version.

Just last one note, from using both versions, I first didn't like GNU emacs
just because I was used to gosling, with all it's quircks (sp?), but now
I'm just dieing to get some space to install GNU Emacs on my main machine.

- Amos Shapira

amoss@batata.bitnet
amoss@batata.huji.ac.il