No M is for meta. These names predate X let alone XFree86 by many years. The names don’t even come from a Unix system. Even GNU emacs predates XFree86 by 6 years.
Your writing implies that Emacs is something like the notepad of Ubuntu. But it’s history is much more extensive than that—- which happens to be one of its unique selling points.
Anyway the point regardless of historical context, is that for all sensible people, that capital C is being used as an abbreviation for the word Control. You’re just being a prat correcting people. You’re not even technically correct, you’re just wrong.
Your writing implies that Emacs is something like the notepad of Ubuntu. But it’s history is much more extensive than that—- which happens to be one of its unique selling points.
Anyway the point regardless of historical context, is that for all sensible people, that capital C is being used as an abbreviation for the word Control. You’re just being a prat correcting people. You’re not even technically correct, you’re just wrong.