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> Interesting to see how good multi-monitor support is.

I used Emacs for 13 years on VMS workstations, all of which used separate X displays for each monitor. Multiple-X-display support was added to Emacs in version 19.3x, but Emacs on VMS [1] was stuck on an older version (19.28?) for a very long time. So I longed for, but lacked, any multi-monitor use with Emacs for a long time. I take it for granted today.

[1] That Emacs was available on VMS at all was due to the efforts of Richard Levitte--one of the unsung heros of FLOSS in my mind. The system interface stuff worked quite well on VMS.



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