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Re: Fatal error (11). Emacs/ Linux hosed my very long document.
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: Fatal error (11). Emacs/ Linux hosed my very long document. |
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Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:55:32 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.5 (chayote, linux) |
>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> Emacs and XEmacs. What is bad about that?
>> That "Emacs" also denotes the whole family.
Stefan> No, you can say (X)Emacs, or you can say "emacsen", ...
Both of which rms deprecates as unclear, as I suspect you know.
>From the Emacs FAQ (draft, 2004/08/28 per personal communication from
David Kastrup):
Terms such as ``Emacsen'' and ``(X)Emacs'' are not wrong, but they
are not very clear, so it is better to write ``Emacs and XEmacs.''
It simply is not possible to phrase certain things in a way that
everyone will be comfortable with.
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