Re: [Bug-zile] Zmacs

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Mar 21, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 20 March 2014 17:16, Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> 
> > Maybe you should avoid that name, as it stands for a historically
> > significant Emacs implementation [1] that is even mentioned in
> > Jamie Zawinski's Emacs timeline [2]. It would certainly cause
> > confusion if Zile reused the name for a completely different
> > implementation.

Nice catch; thanks for the heads up!

> How about "Zeemacs" (it rhymes!)?

It makes it too hard to distinguish between Zmacs and Zeemacs,
especially when spoken, IMHO.

I'd be in favor of simply calling it the 'Zile Emacs Editor' (after all
we already have a precedent in GNU Emacs, Gosling Emacs, microemacs etc.)
which makes for easy disambiguation with Zmacs[1].  Not only that, we are
intentionally cloning GNU Emacs after all. This also allows us to maintain
consistency with future editors over the Zile framework:

  'Zile Vi Editor', 'Zile Acme Editor', 'Zile TextMate Editor', etc...

As for the name of the command to launch it, maybe we could continue to
use `zmacs`?  I can't imagine anybody wants to have both the Zile Emacs
editor and TI Zmacs on the same machine.  At worst we could shorten the
name 'Zile Emacs Editor' to `zemacs` to be clear on both fronts (and then
`zvi`, `zacme`, `zmate` etc... in due course).

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

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