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From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones)
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Subject: Re: call for discussion: renaming comp.emacs to comp.editors.emacs
Message-ID: <1989Nov14.200214.20147@talos.uucp>
Date: 14 Nov 89 20:02:14 GMT
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I write:
 > 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.

Joe Wells writes:
 > 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.

If we're talking about GNU and Unipress Emacs, perhaps.  But what about
JOVE, uEmacs, MicroGnuEmacs, and Freemacs?  The function common to all
of these is text editing.

The name change is not supposed to limit or exclude anything; it's sole
purpose is to categorize.  I'm not proposing that the current discussion
format or anything else about the group be changed, just the name.  As
is, the Emacs group is not categorized at all, except under "comp", and
that's not much better than giving the group its own hierarchy.