From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:22:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200504020351.j323ppS16391@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <16974.11752.332998.125628@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <200504021346.j32Dk3e19471@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <16978.12100.857894.861739@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112776372 18145 80.91.229.2 (6 Apr 2005 08:32:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:32:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 06 10:32:50 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJ5wP-0008Sv-9s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:31:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJ5VS-0001JN-Rp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 04:03:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DJ5Q2-0006Km-6a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 03:57:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJ5Q1-0006J8-Tl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 03:57:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DJ5om-00076D-KN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 04:23:20 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DJ5o0-0001jj-Li; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 04:22:40 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:02:35 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35613 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35613 Richard Stallman writes: > > The GNU/Linux console currently does not appear to support > > `xterm-mouse-mode'. > > I think this should just say Linux console although I don't > really understand where the kernel ends and the operating system > begins. > > Neither "Linux console" nor "GNU/Linux console" is incorrect. > We want to make people aware that the system is not Linux, > so we say "GNU/Linux console". The console is exclusively Linux and has nothing to do with GNU whatsoever. Our main argument for the "GNU/Linux" moniker is the correct attribution of credit and use of terminology, so it undermines our case if we muddy the distinction ourselves. If you want to have the choice of words appear more deliberate, this can be written as: "The text consoles of the Linux kernel currently do not support..." -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum