Re: master 55f46cc77c: Decrease use of the word "Emacsen" in docs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 19:26:44 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > This is too much.  You are removing words we used for decades in Emacs
> > development for no good reason.  You think they are "just jargony and
> > unhelpful", but for me and others this part of our culture and our
> > history of involvement in the Emacs development.  We treasure that
> > history.  Right now, I feel like a chunk of my personal history has
> > been rewritten.
> 
> I think the change clarifies the documentation

I don't see how it could do that.

> > There still are "other Emacsen" out there, even though most of them
> > are all but moribund nowadays.  But even if they were completely dead,
> > the word doesn't have to be removed.  It does no harm by just being
> > there.
> 
> Well, it does cause confusion.  AFAIK, none of the other Emacsen will
> work with semantic, TRAMP, or any of the other Lisp packages where I
> removed that term.  Maybe XEmacs will work with some of them still,
> but that's kind of besides the point these days.  For better or for
> worse, in the context of these packages, there is exactly one Emacs
> implementation that is relevant.

The text is careful enough to not imply that every flavor is capable
of each feature.  I don't see why we would need to remove those words.