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Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows
From: |
Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows |
Date: |
26 Aug 2004 09:04:39 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > First of all, they're both GNU Emacs. XEmacs is just as much a
> > later
> > > version of GNU Emacs as the FSF-distributed version.
> > >
> > > It isn't a later version, it it is a fork.
> >
> > "as much a later version as" is pretty much the same as "fork".
> >
> > I misread it until now. Now I agree, it is correct, but since it is
> > hard to read, clearer wording would be good.
>
> How about: XEmacs is a descendant of the same GNU Emacs source code
> from which the FSF-distributed version is derived.
Not much clearer imo.
What about:
Emacs and XEmacs both descend from the same code base, but development
of the two separated many years ago.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Stefan, 2004/08/24
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/08/25
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2004/08/25
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2004/08/24
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2004/08/24
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2004/08/24
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/25
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2004/08/25
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/25
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2004/08/25
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2004/08/26