[p4] Why is xemacs / gvim /vim kind of editors not supported in p4?

Steve Cogorno cogorno at village.eng.sun.com
Fri Apr 19 10:24:34 PDT 2002


Hemantharaju Subbanna x4832 said:
> I wonder why xemacs/gvim  is not a yet a general customization request.
> If my understanding is right more then half the unix users are  on xemacs.

I doubt that strongly.  Most unix users probably use vi, plain emacs, or
text editor.

By the way, xemacs works with P4 fine for me.  The xemacs that I have is
Emacs 19.14.


> NOTE: One other thing may be that emacs itself is not a supported product.
> But who is supporting "vi"?

Sun Microsystems.



Steve Cogorno
Sun Microsystems



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