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François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > (By the way -- is it "MULE" or "Mule?  I'm waffling all over the place
> > when I write that word.  Perhaps I should start writing it "mUlE"?)
> 
> I documented this somewhere.  Let me see...  OK:
> 
>   The spelling @code{Mule} originally stands for @cite{@emph{mul}tilingual
>   @emph{e}nhancement to GNU Emacs}, it is the result of a collective
>   effort orchestrated by Handa Ken'ishi since 1993.  When @code{Mule} got
>   rewritten in the main development stream of GNU Emacs 20, the FSF renamed
>   it @code{MULE}, meaning @cite{@emph{mul}tilingual @emph{e}nvironment
>   in GNU Emacs}.

Emacs seem a little bit confused about this itself, the menu bar
option is called "Mule" and in it there is "Show all of MULE status".

:-)