Re: [PATCH] Changes to man/xemacs-faq.texi
Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk> writes:
Hacking off RMS gains us nothing, if we can be sensitive to him
without compromising XEmacs goals then I think we should do that. I
suspect that the vast majority of users who read the faq will just
think we are being anal and /or not care.
The users will be confused if Emacs is once used as a generic term,
and the other time to mean `FSF Emacs'. So let's please stick to
`Emacs' as generic. As the rationale in NEWS explains:
N.B. The term "GNU Emacs" refers to any release of Emacs Version
19 from the Free Software Foundation's GNU Project. (We do not
say just "Emacs" as Richard M. Stallman ["RMS"] prefers, because
it is clearly a more generic term.) The term "XEmacs" refers to
this program or to its predecessors "Era" and "Lucid Emacs". The
predecessor of all these program is called "Emacs 18". When no
particular version is implied, "Emacs" will be used.
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