From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Help understanding the URL code Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 07:20:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <5703DBB2.1030903@gmail.com> <57063E60.4040408@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1460038888 13081 80.91.229.3 (7 Apr 2016 14:21:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 14:21:28 +0000 (UTC) To: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 07 16:21:16 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aoAo7-000605-Lg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:21:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50162 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aoAo7-0005IM-0W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:21:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aoAns-0005Hb-2r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:21:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aoAnm-0000TY-6N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:20:59 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:17378) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aoAnl-0000TH-OV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:20:54 -0400 Original-Received: from userv0022.oracle.com (userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u37EKqqU006895 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 7 Apr 2016 14:20:53 GMT Original-Received: from userv0121.oracle.com (userv0121.oracle.com [156.151.31.72]) by userv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u37EKqsO010070 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 7 Apr 2016 14:20:52 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0001.oracle.com (abhmp0001.oracle.com [141.146.116.7]) by userv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u37EKp5a009882; Thu, 7 Apr 2016 14:20:52 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6744.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202795 Archived-At: > Why. The product's name is "Emacs". I don't know of any other > software whose name is Emacs, so it's unambiguous. There have been, and perhaps still are, other flavors of Emacs, besides GNU Emacs. Emacs predates the creation of GNU. > But our software's name is not "GNU-Emacs", it's "Emacs" (and > it's not "GNU Emacs" either, AFAIC). Really? To me it is "GNU Emacs". It is the GNU flavor of Emacs. Anything else would be misleading, IMO, if not presumptuous.