Re: (emacs) Intro [was: Making Emacs popular again with a video]

[Stefan Monnier]

>> - Strictly speaking GNU Emacs and Emacs are distinct.  What
>> recommendations do you have for navigating the distinction?  Or should
>> we *not* make a distinction?  Maybe I'm just being pedantic.
> There is an interesting history here, and I'm as fascinated by this as
> the next guy.  But in this day and age, GNU Emacs has completely
> eclipsed all other versions of Emacs.

That is true.  The editor we're all working on right now is called
"Emacs", and the reason why we sometimes refer to it as "GNU Emacs" is
to remind people that is part of the GNU project, not to distinguish it
from other Emacsen such as "Lucid Emacs".

Notice that all other Emacsen out there use another name: e.g. "XEmacs"
is not called "X Emacs", "Zile" is not called "Zile Emacs", ...


        Stefan