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Re: @dircategory entries sync'ed with info/dir


From: Michael Albinus
Subject: Re: @dircategory entries sync'ed with info/dir
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:58:57 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> Michael Albinus wrote:
>
>> I would prefer to keep "GNU Emacs", because at some places the manual
>> discusses shortly differences to "XEmacs", and I want to make it obvious
>> what we are speaking about.
>
> FYI, several years ago I got an email from rms about this kind of thing
> in the manuals. He said:
>
>    It should say just "Emacs", not "GNU Emacs".
>    [...]
>    If you see any place in the Emacs sources that contrasts "XEmacs"
>    with "GNU Emacs", please report it to me so I can fix it, or else
>    fix it yourself.

I see.

When I started contributing to Tramp back in 2002, I used the term "FSF
Emacs". I was told to change it to "GNU Emacs" (I cannot find the email
in the archive, but it was not RMS). Things change, again.

I will check, how to adapt this in the Tramp manual.

Thanks, and best regards, Michael.



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