From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [simon.marshall@misys.com: Font Lock on-the-fly misfontification in C++] Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 08:59:25 +0100 Message-ID: <20060801075924.GA1176@muc.de> References: <20060723142630.GB1433@muc.de> <20060731220419.GF1271@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154420406 26953 80.91.229.2 (1 Aug 2006 08:20:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 08:20:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-pretest-bug-bounces+gebp-emacs-pretest-bug=gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 01 10:20:01 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gebp-emacs-pretest-bug@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7pTi-0003EX-5a for gebp-emacs-pretest-bug@gmane.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:19:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7pTh-0005n5-Gu for gebp-emacs-pretest-bug@gmane.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7pTd-0005lm-9J for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:19:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7pTc-0005jP-6Y for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:19:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7pTc-0005jD-1u for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:19:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.149.48.1] (helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G7pWS-0004Ny-7q for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:22:40 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 30659 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2006 08:19:41 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (HELO localhost.localdomain) (Debian-exim@193.149.49.134) by mail.muc.de with SMTP; 1 Aug 2006 08:19:41 -0000 Original-Received: from acm by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.50) id 1G7p9x-0000RR-2s; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:59:25 +0100 Original-To: Richard Stallman Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-BeenThere: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for CVS Emacs." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-pretest-bug-bounces+gebp-emacs-pretest-bug=gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-pretest-bug-bounces+gebp-emacs-pretest-bug=gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:13240 gmane.emacs.devel:57925 Archived-At: Good morning, Richard! On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:59:55PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > To speak of "GNU Emacs" and "XEmacs" gives the impression that XEmacs > has nothing to do with GNU. XEmacs isn't maintained by the GNU project. > Since XEmacs is a forked version of Emacs, that is a misleading > impression. Please write "Emacs" and "XEmacs", or else "GNU Emacs" > and "GNU XEmacs". "Emacs", unqualified, can be ambiguous. It can mean either (i) "an editor of the Emacs persuasion"; or (ii) "the best editor in the world, maintained by the GNU project". In contexts where it is important to emphasise that (ii) is meant, surely "GNU Emacs" is what to write. "XEmacs", by contrast, means what it means. It's what its maintainers call it, and I think they would be irritated a fair bit by "GNU XEmacs". Also, "GNU XEmacs" is so unusual, that to write it would distract attention from one's intented message. -- Alan.