Gah. Are we being pulled into an Emacs vs XEmacs debate again? These things are such a waste of time... EmacsWiki:2004-12-12 is about renaming all references to “Emacs” to “GNU Emacs”. 😢 Then again, not being the one feeling injured by current practice, I might just not see the issue. I’d love to somehow turn this question away from the wiki. I think it would be best if vocal exponents were to discuss it amongst themselves, in private email. Ideally, that would prove to be so exhausting that the status quo remains. Or at least we’d find a solution that appeases the most difficult types and is therefore most likely no problem for the rest of the world.
Oh well, at least I remembered that there was a Shakespeare quote for “what’s in a name?” – and I found it in my selected quotes of Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet. (Years ago I went through an electronic copy of the play and pulled out all the quotes I liked and put it in cookie format for fortune.)
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What’s in the name?
One of my colleague has recently declared that he will try xemacs and not gnu emacs because he wants the graphic thingies and work with a graphic environement. (ok i fool him a bit as i am about the only person to use emacs he sees and have turned off toolbar, scrollbar , and menu bar).
I propose to rename Gnu Emacs to Gnu Xemacs ! 😉
– PierreGaston 2004-12-12 18:42 UTC