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Well, considering that this is a Stallman maintained Emacs project, it's not misleading at all: if you know Emacs is a family of editors, than you know enough t

Well, considering that this is a Stallman maintained Emacs project, it's not misleading at all: if you know Emacs is a family of editors, than you know enough to know which of the Emacs he's talking about, and if you don't, than when you think "Emacs," you think GNU Emacs anyways. Stallman hasn't maintained every Emacs, but he's maintained the definitive Emacs since '76, with some gaps here and there. When you think Emacs, you typically don't think THIEF, EINE, ZWEI, FINE, Edwin, Climacs, Hemlock, Efuns, Zile, QEmacs, Multics Emacs, Gosling Emacs, JOVE, JEmacs, Guile Emacs, or Ermacs. You either think of GNU emacs and its derivitives, or the original EMACS. Both of which RMS maintained. It's not a bad idea to give respect to other implementers, but when you maintained the most popular incarnation, twice over, you don't NEED that kind of specificity: people will know what you're talking about.

lispm 10y ago
> the definitive Emacs since '76 The Emacs from 76 and GNU Emacs are totally different programs. > When you think Emacs, you typically don't think THIEF, EINE, ZWEI, FINE, Edwin, Climacs, Hemlock, Efuns, Zile, QEmacs, Multics Emacs, Gosling Emacs, JOVE, JEmacs, Guile Emacs, or Ermacs. Talk about you. When I think of Emacs, then I think of Aquamacs (a variant of GNU Emacs), Zmacs (which I have running on a real Lisp Machine and under emulation), Clozure CL's editor (which is a Hemlock variant) on my Mac and the LispWorks editor under OSX and Linux, which is also a Hemlock variant. Actually the Emacs I use most, is the one in LispWorks. GNU Emacs comes second.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  >The Emacs from 76 and GNU Emacs are totally different programs. I know, but there were both definitive in their time.