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I hate to say this, but even as an XEmacs fan, cperl+gemacs is far superior. Recent GNU Emacs has some extra stuff that XEmacs doesn't have, that allows cperl to do some really amazing things. (I have vague memories of the "extra stuff" being multiple syntax transition tables for each character, so you can gracefully handle things like m!!x and other non-standard delimiters. But I could be totally wrong.)