Jonathan Nieder wrote: > | Description: The GNU Emacs editor I won't try to argue with that redundant capitalised definite article just now, but how come this one gets a plain synopsis when the default emacs23 gets "The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ user interface)"?
> | GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. > | This package contains a version of Emacs with a Lucid user interface. > > But what is a Lucid user interface? Presumably it means "the user > interface offered by emacs23-lucid", which is still unhelpful. > > The changelog.Debian.gz tells me it is "an emacsVER-lucid package for > those who still want the non-GTK+ version" --- that is, the UI > > (1) looks like old emacs > (2) does not use GTK+ > > --- which seem like useful data for a person deciding whether to > install it. > > The reader is also curious about the relationship, if any, to Lucid, > Inc. Lucid, Inc's "Lucid Emacs" was the fork that became XEmacs. So it would seem that emacs23-lucid is the version of GNU Emacs designed to look like nineties versions of XEmacs? See http://www.gnu.org/s/libtool/manual/emacs/Lucid-Resources.html#Lucid-Resources Installing them and comparing (on Squeeze) I see that emacs23's splash screen says "This is GNU EMacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)" while emacs23-lucid's has "(x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)". It's older and greyer-looking than the GTK+ version, but nowhere near as grey as xemacs21... Maybe the description could be something like: Description: The GNU Emacs editor (non-GTK+ GUI) GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains a version of Emacs with a graphical user interface based on the old XEmacs-style Lucid widget set. (It's a good thing JWZ didn't fork a version of Lynx as well, or Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" users would have been really confused.) -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
