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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 55f46cc77c: Decrease use of the word "Emacsen" in docs
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 08:18:00 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1tz3wp3.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835yh3birw.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 01 Oct 2022 19:39:15 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> This is too much.  You are removing words we used for decades in Emacs
> development for no good reason.  You think they are "just jargony and
> unhelpful", but for me and others this part of our culture and our
> history of involvement in the Emacs development.  We treasure that
> history.  Right now, I feel like a chunk of my personal history has
> been rewritten.
>
> There still are "other Emacsen" out there, even though most of them
> are all but moribund nowadays.  But even if they were completely dead,
> the word doesn't have to be removed.  It does no harm by just being
> there.

In addition, "Emacsen" refers not only to the "other Emacsen", but old
versions of Emacs, many of which are still used (all the way back to
CJK-modified versions of Emacs 19.5x.)



      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-02  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-01 15:21 master 55f46cc77c: Decrease use of the word "Emacsen" in docs Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-01 16:15 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-01 16:39   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-01 17:26     ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-01 17:50       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-02  0:18     ` Po Lu [this message]

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