18.55 etc/server should have a better name

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From: jik
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1990 13:22

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  The default behavior of emacs (in 18.55 and in previous versions) is
to search the user's search path, and then the default emacs search
path, for programs started with "start-process".  This is a good
thing.

  The problem is that the emacs server program has a name which is
very non-descriptive ("server"), and there is therefore a reasonably
good chance that a user may have a program in his search path with the
same name, but meant to do a different thing entirely.

  May I suggest that the "server" program be renamed something a bit
more descriptive like "emacsserver" (in parallel with "emacsclient",
of ocurse)?

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