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 @node Top
 @top The Emacs Editor
 
-Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time
-display editor.  This manual describes how to edit with Emacs and
-some of the ways to customize it; it corresponds to GNU Emacs version
-@value{EMACSVER}.
+Emacs is the advanced, extensible, customizable, self-documenting
+editor.  This manual describes how to edit with Emacs and some of the
+ways to customize it; it corresponds to GNU Emacs version @value{EMACSVER}.
 
 @c See 'manual-html-mono' and 'manual-html-node' in admin/admin.el.
 @ifset WWW_GNU_ORG