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		PuercoPop on Jan 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Frontmacs > Emacsens Nitpick. Emacsen refer to an editor in the Emacs family. It wasn't always the case that Emacs was equated with GNU Emacs.

Koshkin on Jan 5, 2018 [–]

Actually, 'emacsen' is the German plural for 'emacs', not the Scandinavian (?) for 'an emacs'.

_acme on Jan 5, 2018 | [–]

What language is "Scandinavian"? Also, perhaps the intention was that "Emacsen" was the literal name of a version of the emacs family of editors, of which GNU Emacs is only one (XEmacs, for example, being another one).

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