From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interactive guide for new users Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:40:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <875z8ortot.fsf@gkayaalp.com> <83lfhjkq0r.fsf@gnu.org> <8620B5CD-CA92-46BF-80A8-DBE7052F4CA6@gmail.com> <87d02haj4g.fsf@mercovich.net> <87pn6fmbe4.fsf@mercovich.net> <351805b9-749b-46a6-a360-97b453def853@default> <87v9g6tc34.fsf@posteo.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37407"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eduardo@mercovich.net, stefankangas@gmail.com, self@gkayaalp.com, eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: "Philip K." Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 23 05:42:00 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kKvfM-0009cO-9k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 05:42:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39054 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKvfL-0003eh-7P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:41:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38094) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKveG-0002rK-F2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:40:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36557) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKveE-0002wA-FK; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kKveD-00062j-Bo; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:40:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87v9g6tc34.fsf@posteo.net> (philipk@posteo.net) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256342 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > I think "modified Emacs releases" would be a better term to use. > They aren't real "releases" though, usually installing them just > requires downloading a preconfigured .emacs.d directory. In that case, the word "distribution" does not fit them either. How about "Emacs configurations"? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)