Hi,

> In Philip Temple's article in Archimedes World last August he mentioned
> Emacs and said it kept crashing and he was advised to stick to vi.
> However, I think he was referring to XEmacs which doesn't seem to be
> available now - is that because of its reliability? How reliable is the
> plain version? vi kept crashing when I tried to edit my .profile
> earlier, but it seems to be OK since I deleted the file and recreated
> it.

* the FSF-Emacs works fine for me, at least the latest version never
crashed on my computer!

* the XEmacs-port is for the alpha-RiscBSD, so it is no wonder that it
is quite unstable. In general FSF-Emacs is a lot more stable than
XEmacs while XEmacs has more X-Gadgets like the buttonbar or the
ability of displaying graphics and playing sounds. OTOH FSF-Emacs has
more functions.

Again, if there is demand I'll take a look at XEmacs 19.15.

Bye,
Jochen

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