Re: [Bug-zile] Zmacs

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> Maybe you should avoid that name, as it stands for a historically
> significant Emacs implementation [1] that is even mentioned in
> Jamie Zawinski's Emacs timeline [2]. It would certainly cause
> confusion if Zile reused the name for a completely different
> implementation.

Addendum:
Zmacs is also mentioned in the "Active Regions" section of the XEmacs
user manual [3]:

| Active regions originally come from Zmacs, the Lisp Machine editor.
| The idea behind them is that commands can only operate on a region
| when the region is in an "active" state. Put simply, you can only
| operate on a region that is highlighted."

XEmacs also has some zmacs-* variables, for example zmacs-regions
which is the equivalent of GNU Emacs' transient-mark-mode.

Ulrich

> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zmacs
> [2] http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html
[3] http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/xemacs_12.html#SEC99