Johan Walles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS: I'm under the impression that Emacs has support for Motif, but not > for GTK+. Is that so? In that case, anybody but me find this weird?
That's so. Bill Perry developed Gtk-XEmacs which has been folded in to XEmacs proper but is still considered experimental. I've heard that it's available (perhaps in unstable?) for Debian as xemacs-gnome. There was some discussion on emacs-devel about GTK support in GNU Emacs, but I don't think it's a priority. The weirdness is historical. The GNU project decided to use X11 as their window system, but didn't standardise on a toolkit. Lesstif progressed slowly (it's pretty good now). GTK is weird because it transcends X toolkitiness; I think the idea is that a well-behaved GTK program can run on a Windows or Macintosh machine with appropriate libraries (under XEmacs built --with-gtk the variable window-system's value is gtk, not x). -- John Paul Wallington
