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Is there a port of XEmacs to Microsoft Windows?

April 26, 2017Microsoft Windows port XEmacs

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Is there a port of XEmacs to Microsoft Windows?

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Yes. Beginning with release 21.0, XEmacs has worked under MS Windows and is fully-featured and actively developed. A group of dedicated developers actively maintains and improves the Windows-specific portions of the code. Some of the core developers, in fact, use Windows as their only development environment, and some features, such as printing, actually work better on Windows than native Unix and Mac OS X. The mailing list at xemacs-winnt@xemacs.org is dedicated to that effort (please use the -request address to subscribe). (Despite its name, XEmacs actually works on all versions of Windows.) The list name is misleading, as XEmacs supports and has been compiled on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, and all newer versions of Windows. The MS Windows-specific code is based on Microsoft Win32 API, and will not work on MS Windows 3.x or on MS-DOS. XEmacs also supports the Cygwin and MinGW development and runtime environments, where it also uses native