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master 914d452: Minor copyedits in Emacs FAQ


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: master 914d452: Minor copyedits in Emacs FAQ
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 11:04:47 -0400 (EDT)

branch: master
commit 914d4523c3f0455dfd071d54b776a1db278aac4c
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

    Minor copyedits in Emacs FAQ
    
    * doc/misc/efaq.texi (What was XEmacs?, Colors on a TTY): Fix
    wording and improve the description.
---
 doc/misc/efaq.texi | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/misc/efaq.texi b/doc/misc/efaq.texi
index d5d1eb5..46f7822 100644
--- a/doc/misc/efaq.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/efaq.texi
@@ -1425,16 +1425,17 @@ of files from Macintosh, Microsoft, and Unix platforms.
 @cindex XEmacs
 
 XEmacs was a branch version of Emacs that is no longer actively
-developed.  XEmacs last released a new version on January 30, 2009,
-and it lacks many important features that exist in Emacs.  Since its
-development has stopped, we do not expect to see any new releases.
+developed.  Originally known as ``Lucid Emacs'', XEmacs was forked
+from a prerelease version of Emacs 19.  XEmacs last released a new
+version on January 30, 2009, which lacks many important features that
+exist in Emacs.  Since its development has stopped, we do not expect
+to see any new releases.
 
 In the past, it was not uncommon for Emacs packages to include code
 for compatibility with XEmacs.  Nowadays, most built-in and third party
 packages have either stopped supporting XEmacs or were developed
 exclusively for Emacs.
 
-XEmacs was initially derived from a prerelease version of Emacs 19.
 If you want to talk about these two versions and distinguish them,
 please call them ``Emacs'' and ``XEmacs.''  To contrast ``XEmacs''
 with ``GNU Emacs'' would be misleading, since XEmacs too has its
@@ -1565,7 +1566,7 @@ capabilities.
 The command @kbd{M-x list-colors-display} pops up a window which
 exhibits all the colors Emacs knows about on the current display.
 
-Syntax highlighting is on by default.
+Syntax highlighting is also on by default on text-only terminals.
 
 @cindex direct color in terminals
 Emacs 26.1 and later support direct color mode in terminals.  If Emacs



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