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Re: Fatal error (11). Emacs/ Linux hosed my very long document.
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Fatal error (11). Emacs/ Linux hosed my very long document. |
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Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:48:23 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Brian Palmer <bpalmer@gmail.com> writes:
> Quoting from the faq that is distributed with emacs (not the one in
> xemacs, that I can tell, which might mean something -- or might not):
>
> File: efaq, Node: Difference between Emacs and XEmacs, Next: Emacs for
> MS-DOS, Prev: Current GNU
> distributions, Up: Finding Emacs and related packages
>
> What is the difference between Emacs and XEmacs (formerly "Lucid Emacs")?
> =========================================================================
>
> First of all, they're both GNU Emacs. XEmacs is just as much a later
> version of GNU Emacs as the FSF-distributed version. This FAQ refers to
> the latest version to be distributed by the FSF as "Emacs," partly
> because the XEmacs maintainers now refer to their product using the
> "XEmacs" name, and partly because there isn't any accurate way to
> differentiate between the two without getting mired in paragraphs of
> legalese and history.
>
> Yes, this means that there is no good way to distinguish between the
> two dominant emacs-variants.
Emacs and XEmacs. What is bad about that?
> For various reasons, some people seem to get annoyed when you use
> fsfemacs to indicate the one being distributed by the FSF , which
> would otherwise be my preference when I need to distinguish between
> emacs and xemacs.
Why? If you need to distinguish between Emacs and XEmacs, call them
Emacs and XEmacs. What is easier than that?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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Re: Fatal error (11). Emacs/ Linux hosed my very long document., Brian Palmer, 2004/09/18
Re: Fatal error (11). Emacs/ Linux hosed my very long document., JEDIDIAH, 2004/09/17
Re: Fatal error (11). Emacs/ Linux hosed my very long document., Aquila Deus, 2004/09/18
Re: Fatal error (11). Emacs/ Linux hosed my very long document., wlcna, 2004/09/20