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Re: Bug related to `start-process' and `process-connection-type'


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Bug related to `start-process' and `process-connection-type'
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 09:55:00 +0200

> From: Chong Yidong <yidong@stanford.edu>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 01 Feb 2002 19:21:27 -0800
> 
> rms@gnu.org (Richard Stallman) writes:
> 
> > If you contrast GNU Emacs with XEmacs, that conveys a mistaken
> > impression that it is unrelated to GNU.  We don't use XEmacs in the
> > GNU system, but it is derived from GNU (an earlier version of Emacs).
> > Please call them "Emacs" and "XEmacs", or else "GNU Emacs" and "GNU
> > XEmacs".
> 
> That seems misleading, not to mention confusing. XEmacs is not part of
> the GNU project, even if it was derived from a GNU program.

Is the "Emacs" vs "XEmacs" naming okay with you?  If so, please use
that, and let's be done with these fruitless arguments about names.

(Richard wrote Emacs, so his requests about how to call the program
must have some weight, even if you disagree.)



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