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From: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
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Subject: Re: call for discussion: renaming comp.emacs to comp.editors.emacs
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Date: 13 Nov 89 20:39:39 GMT
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In article <1989Nov9.201016.13049@talos.uucp> kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones) writes:

   I propose that the newsgroup "comp.emacs" be renamed to
   "comp.editors.emacs".

   The categorization of Emacs as a text editor by placing it under
   "comp.editors" seems reasonable and proper, much more so than
   placing it under "comp" alone.  Although Emacs has been extended
   to do many things seemingly tangential to editing, its central
   function is still text editing and it should be classified as such.

I disagree that its central function is text editing.  If you took a
survey, I think you would find that more than half of the time spent using
Emacs was not for text editing.

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Joe Wells <jbw@bucsf.bu.edu>
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