Emacs vs XEmacs: which to choose for plain console using?

[a at zeos.net]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:05:34AM +0100, Lothar Braun wrote:
> Hi Elisej,
> 
> On Wednesday 03 January 2007 20:41, a at zeos.net wrote:
> > What are advantages and disadvantages of xemacs over emacs?
> > Which to choose for plain console using?
> 
> Maybe
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsAndXEmacs
> 
> can help you to understand the differences. There's also a small discussion 
> about when to use Emacs and when to use XEmacs.
> But in your case you only have the possibility to use emacs. Only emacs is 
> able to work on the plain console.
> 
> Regards,
>   Lothar

Thank you for the link. It helped me to choose to learn Emacs.