Re: [orca-list] FW: the speakupmodified dists from speakupmodified.org

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Isn't Xemacs discontinued?  I haven't seen a new version of it in 
years.  It's stuck at like version 21 or something.  What widget library 
does it use?  I don't think it's gtk+.  It's probably not accessible 
with Orca.  Do you know if it is?  IMHO, if you are going to use Emacs, 
Gnu Emacs is the way to go and Emacspeak is really the best way to use 
it while blind.  Having said that, I still maintain that it will  never 
catch on to be anything more than a package for a small portion of the 
blind Linux user community as Emacs proper is the editor of choice for a 
small devoted user base in mostly the *nix community.  It has had more 
than thirty years to take the world by storm and never has and never 
will.  That's ok.  Different strokes for different folks.  But, because 
of this sort of niche user group, it won't ever take the place of things 
like Libre Office or Gedit on popular Linux distributions as the default 
editor/word processor.  Any distro that does it will see a sharp decline 
in new users, I think.

Alex M

On 7/9/2012 5:38 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> That's why I suggested xemacs rather than emacs.
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