bug#18205: Obsolete patterns in auto-mode-alist

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: rrt@sc3d.org,  rgm@gnu.org,  18205@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:12:46 -0400
> 
> > I think we already invested too much energy in discussing a non-issue.
> 
> You do have a point about this discussion being silly, but I think the
> core is that we don't want to advertize proprietary products, so in
> order to do that while still being able to refer to such products, we
> like to garble the product name in a way that expresses our dislike
> for it (so it's clear we don't advocate its use).
> 
> "MS-DOG" and "Losedows" were examples of that.  I'm not very fond of
> such tricks, but if we get rid of MS-DOG I think it's better to replace
> it with FreeDOS than with MS-DOS.

I say let the sleeping dog lie.  The MS-DOS port of Emacs is in
maintenance mode, and even I build it and work on it only during
pretests.  It makes very little sense to "fix" anything related to it
that isn't 100% broken.  It certainly makes no sense to start yet
another argument over it with RMS.