Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk&gt; writes: 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. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- "Listen, kid, we're all in it together!" -- Harry Tuttle in _Brazil_