Re: Debian GNU/w32, may ready to be started?
>>>>> "Craig" == Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com> writes:
Craig> Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>
>> Last I heard, RMS really hates the moniker "win32" because it
>> has the string "win" in it, implying that there's something
>> winning about Windows. I suspect he'd like w32 better than
>> win32 for what that's worth.
Craig> During Emacs 20 development, rms insisted on changing all
Craig> the elisp win32-* variables to w32-* for precisely that
Craig> reason, so it seems he's happy with w32.
The similar debate occured on the xemacs-beta mailing list. They
stuck with "win32", IIRC, since that's the symbol name used in the
Microsoft world. They, of course, _like_ to have the string "win" in
there. It's tell US to win. ;-)
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