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I honestly didn't know what a Emac is. It seems that this would be a good thing to have on a site like Emacs.

From Wikipedia:

The eMac, short for education Mac, is a Macintosh desktop computer made by Apple Inc. It was originally aimed at the education market, but was later made available as a cheaper mass market alternative to Apple's second-generation LCD display iMac G4. The eMac was pulled from retail on October 12, 2005 and was sold exclusively to educational institutions thereafter. It was discontinued by Apple on July 5, 2006 and replaced by a cheaper, low-end iMac that, like the eMac, was originally sold exclusively to educational institutions.

From Wikipedia:

Emacs /ˈiːmæks/ and its derivatives are a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor".[1] Development of the first Emacs began in the mid-1970s and continues actively as of 2014. Emacs has over 2,000 built-in commands and allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work. Emacs Lisp provides a deep extension capability allowing users and developers to write new commands using a variant of the Lisp programming language.

Even on Wikipedia, there are conflicting definitions - which one is this site about?

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    I'm afraid even that list isn't entirely comprehensive.
    – Jaydles Staff
    Commented Nov 3, 2014 at 23:18
  • Indeed - that wasn't my point.
    – Cullub
    Commented Nov 3, 2014 at 23:36
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    apple.stackexchange.com for the first and this site for the second. Commented Nov 4, 2014 at 3:40
  • When I first read this I thought it was a joke. I now realize that it's not. But if it were, it would be genius.
    – itsjeyd
    Commented Nov 4, 2014 at 14:16

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The second one.

Let this be a lesson: we must update https://emacs.stackexchange.com/tour and other mostly stock pages.

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  • Do we have a second.
    – Cullub
    Commented Nov 3, 2014 at 23:37
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    @cullub The editor. This site is about the editor. Commented Nov 4, 2014 at 3:39
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    re /tour: is there a means by which we can help update these pages? This is the first Beta site I've really participated in, so the ins-and-outs are still new to me. Commented Nov 4, 2014 at 3:58
  • @SeanAllred Only Stack Exchange staff can update the “is a question and answer site for” part. And while they're at it they should fix the double “for”. Commented Nov 4, 2014 at 11:04
  • "Emacs Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for those using, extending or developing emacs text editors" okay with you lot?
    – Laura Staff
    Commented Nov 4, 2014 at 19:20
  • Or: "Emacs Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for those using, extending or developing the emacs text editor" ?
    – daveloyall
    Commented Nov 4, 2014 at 19:34
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    Sure. Tour page is updated.
    – Laura Staff
    Commented Nov 4, 2014 at 20:19
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This site is about Emacs, not about eMacs. (A site about an obsolete and piece of hardware that never had a major cult following would be rather improbable anyway.)

Which is not to say that the site description couldn't stand a bit of clarification — make it “the Emacs editor” instead of “emacs”.

(And yes, Emacs is officially an editor. One in which you can do a lot of things other than editing files, but still an editor.)

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