list stating the project was "at a crossroads" in terms of future compatibility with GNU Emacs due to developer attrition and GNU Emacs' progress. Several options were laid out for future directions including ending development entirely, creating a new fork from the current version of GNU Emacs, or putting the project in maintenance mode in case someone wants to restart development in the future. This last option was the direction decided, with commitments from individual contributors to provide minimal support for the web site and development resources. See also List of Unix commands Comparison of text editors SXEmacs (a fork of XEmacs) References External links Downloadable XEmacs manuals Lucid Emacs history from the view of its original maintainer, Jamie Zawinski The History of XEmacs Concise XEmacs tutorial Printable XEmacs Reference Card (PDF) Cross-platform software Emacs Free software programmed in C Free text editors MacOS text editors Software forks Software using the GPL license Text editors that use GTK Discontinued development tools Unix text editors Windows text editors