Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes: > Why are they still using emacs-22?
University students and employees. Sometimes back I was investigating hosting for personal files. The site runs a version of FreeBSD version and had Emacs 22 on their servers. When I requested that they upgrade their Emacs to 23 or 24 they refused citing some reason why they /had/ to downgrade. It has something to do with their site architecture not supporting /dev/tty in their ssh environment. Apparently some changes in Emacs 23 - may be Emacs server (or is it the emacsclient?) - that relies on use of /dev/tty. In short, external constraints. Also XEmacs seem to be lagging behind severely. See this recent thread: http://list-archive.xemacs.org/pipermail/xemacs-beta/2012-September/023201.html I am wondering what makes people continue using their XEmacses. --
