BRAIL%mit-eddie@BLUE.UUCP (09/10/85)
From: harvard!topaz!BLUE!BRAIL@mit-eddie EMACS may stand for "Editing MACroS," but some friends of mine suggested some more creative definitions. Here they are. Anyone have any additions? -------- Even a Master of Arts Comes Simpler Emacs Manuals Are Cryptic and Surreal Energetic Merchants Always Cultivate Sales Each Manual's Audience is Completely Stupified Emacs Means A Crappy Screen Eventually Munches All Computer Storage Even My Aunt Crashes the System Eradication of Memory Accomplished with Complete Simplicity Elsewhere Maybe Alternative Civilizations Survive Egregious Managers Actively Court Stallman Esoteric Malleability Always Considered Silly Emacs Manuals Always Cause Senility Easily Maintained with the Assistance of Chemical Solutions EMACS MACRO ACTED CREDO SODOM Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins Generally Not Used Except by Middle Aged Computer Scientists Extended Macros Are Considered Superfluous Every Mode Accelerates Creation of Software Elsewhere Maybe All Commands are Simple Emacs May Allow Customised Screwups Excellent Manuals Are Clearly Suppressed Emetic Macros Assault Core and Segmentation Embarrassed Manual-Writer Accused of Communist Subversion Extensibilty and Modifiability Aggravate Confirmed Simpletons Emacs May Annihilate Command Structures Easily Mangles, Aborts, Crashes and Stupifies Extraneous Macros And Commands Stink Exceptionally Mediocre Algorithm for Computer Scientists EMACS Makes no Allowances Considering its Stiff price Equine Mammals Are Considerably Smaller Embarrasingly Mundane Advertising Cuts Sales Every Moron Assumes CCA is Superior Exceptionally Mediocre Autocratic Control System EMACS May Alienate Clients and Supporters Excavating Mayan Architecture Comes Simpler Erasing Minds Allows Complete Submission Every Male Adolescent Craves Sex Elephantine Memory Absolutely Considered Sine que non Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos Eenie-Meenie-Miney-Mo- Macros Are Completely Slow Experience the Mildest Ad Campaign ever Seen Emacs Makefiles Annihilate C- Shells Eradication of Memory Accomplished with Complete Simplicity Emetic Macros Assault Core and Segmentation Epileptic MLisp Aggravates Compiler Seizures Eleven thousand Monkeys Asynchronously Crank out these Slogans -------
warren@ihnss.UUCP (Warren Montgomery) (09/10/85)
Someone at a luncheon suggested it meant: Evenings, Mornings, And a Couple of Saturdays (In reference to the odd hours that went into the creation of my implementation). -- Warren Montgomery ihnss!warren IH ((312)-979) x2494
macrakis@harvard.ARPA (Stavros Macrakis) (09/14/85)
> Someone at a luncheon suggested it meant: ... > -- Warren Montgomery Actually, if anyone cares.... The original Emacs was written as a package of Editing MACroS under the Teco text editor on the DEC PDP-10 machine running the ITS timesharing system at the MIT AI lab about nine years ago. ITS Teco is distantly related to other Tecos on PDP-10's in that its basic commands are all the same (Example: to go to the end of the current line and insert `foo', the command is `:LIfoo$'), but has a very large repertory of sometimes useful, sometimes weird, and always cryptic commands. (Example: Sort the lines of the buffer using as key everything between `>>' and '<<' would be ^P S>>$ $ S<<$ $ L $'). Since before 1971, Teco ran on display terminals in a mode where commands were echoed at the bottom of the screen (hence the term `echo line') and the buffer was displayed in the rest of the screen. (In case you're wondering how dot was indicated--since the cursor was always in the echo area--it was `/\'.) Still, commands were not executed as they were typed in, but rather when they were terminated with $$. In addition, there were two different real-time edit modes, called ^T and ^R mode (because those were the Teco commands to enter the modes). These modes were wired into Teco (which was written in assembler), and not very heavily used. Around 1970, several people decided that real-time editing in Teco would be a good idea. I'm not sure when ^R mode was made extensible, but it must have been about this time. Several packages were put together. One of them was especially designed for light users or non-hacker users. Its commands were fairly mnemonic and emphasized word processing. Another one, named Tecmac, was designed for and by hackers. A third, which came a bit later, was Emacs. Emacs had the advantage that its designer and developer, Richard Stallman, also maintained Teco, to which he made many extensions to make Emacs easier to write and maintain and more efficient to run. The other macro packages had had to use bare Teco, which is something like trying to write systems programs in old Dartmouth Basic. To give you an idea of how primitive Teco was before Stallman's enhancements, it didn't even have named variables and procedures (just q-registers A - Z). All the macro packages were user-customizable, but customization required a knowledge of many obscure parts of Teco. The first Emacs that was written in a `friendlier' environment was, I believe, Multics Emacs, written by Bernie Greenberg. It was written in Multics Maclisp. Since then, of course, there have been many Emacs's, most of them emphasizing the notion of extensibility and power. But ITS Emacs runs on ...! -s (Stavros Macrakis)
gml@ssc-vax.UUCP (Gregory M Lobdell) (09/15/85)
Pleeeeeeeze!!! Nice try on the meaning of EMACS. I believe the correct acronym is: Emacs Makes All Computing Simple Thank you, and Good Night
turner@saber.UUCP (D'arc Angel @ The Houses of the Holy) (09/16/85)
> > Someone at a luncheon suggested it meant: ... > > -- Warren Montgomery > > Actually, if anyone cares.... The original Emacs was written as a > package of Editing MACroS under the Teco text editor on the DEC ...... > > But ITS Emacs runs on ...! > > -s > > (Stavros Macrakis) *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** very interesting, but what does GNU stand for ? -- god bless Lily St. Cyr -Rocky Horror Picture Show Name: James Turner Mail: Saber Technology, 2381 Bering Drive, San Jose, California 95131 AT&T: (408) 945-9600 x75 UUCP: ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!saber!turner ...{amd,ihnp4,ittvax}!saber!turner
neal@weitek.UUCP (Neal Bedard) (09/24/85)
In article <1771@saber.UUCP>, turner@saber.UUCP (D'arc Angel @ The Houses of the Holy) writes: > very interesting, but what does GNU stand for ? > -- > god bless Lily St. Cyr > -Rocky Horror Picture Show > > Name: James Turner > Mail: Saber Technology, 2381 Bering Drive, San Jose, California 95131 GNU = Gnu's Not UNIX. There is also MINCE, for Mince Is Not a Complete Emacs. More recursive acronyms, anyone? -Neal -- "whaddya mean there were bullet-holes in his mirror..." UUCP: {turtlevax, resonex, cae780}!weitek!neal
wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill.Stewart.4K435.x0705) (09/27/85)
> > very interesting, but what does GNU stand for ? > GNU = Gnu's Not UNIX. There is also MINCE, for Mince Is Not a Complete Emacs. > More recursive acronyms, anyone? Many people have also seen FINE Is Not Emacs, but the one that has character is THief Isn't Even Fine. -- ## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs
ta2@edison.UUCP (tom allebrandi) (09/30/85)
> GNU = Gnu's Not UNIX. There is also MINCE, for Mince Is Not a Complete Emacs. > > More recursive acronyms, anyone? > For the DEC-system-10/20: FINE - Fine Is Not Emacs..... -- ............... tom allebrandi 2, general electric aco, charlottesville, va {decvax,duke}!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!edison!ta2 box 8106, charlottesville, va, 22906 (804) 978-5566 ...............
turner@saber.UUCP (D'arc Angel @ The Houses of the Holy) (09/30/85)
> In article <1771@saber.UUCP>, turner@saber.UUCP (D'arc Angel @ The Houses of the Holy) writes: > > very interesting, but what does GNU stand for ? > > -- > > god bless Lily St. Cyr > > -Rocky Horror Picture Show > > > > Name: James Turner > > Mail: Saber Technology, 2381 Bering Drive, San Jose, California 95131 > > GNU = Gnu's Not UNIX. There is also MINCE, for Mince Is Not a Complete Emacs. > > More recursive acronyms, anyone? > > -Neal > > -- > "whaddya mean there were bullet-holes in his mirror..." > UUCP: {turtlevax, resonex, cae780}!weitek!neal *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Yes, but who or what is Gnu ????? -- god bless Lily St. Cyr -Rocky Horror Picture Show Name: James Turner Mail: Saber Technology, 2381 Bering Drive, San Jose, California 95131 AT&T: (408) 945-9600 x75 UUCP: ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!saber!turner ...{amd,ihnp4,ittvax}!saber!turner
crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) (10/01/85)
In article <1781@saber.UUCP> turner@saber.UUCP (D'arc Angel @ The Houses of the Holy) writes: >> In article <1771@saber.UUCP>, turner@saber.UUCP (D'arc Angel @ The Houses of the Holy) writes: >Yes, but who or what is Gnu ????? Not much, what's gnu with you? You mean, it *wasn't* a straight line? -- Charlie Martin (...mcnc!duke!crm)
turner@saber.UUCP (D'arc Angel @ The Houses of the Holy) (10/03/85)
> In article <1781@saber.UUCP> turner@saber.UUCP (D'arc Angel @ The Houses of the Holy) writes: > >> In article <1771@saber.UUCP>, turner@saber.UUCP (D'arc Angel @ The Houses of the Holy) writes: > >Yes, but who or what is Gnu ????? > Not much, what's gnu with you? > > > You mean, it *wasn't* a straight line? > > -- > > Charlie Martin > (...mcnc!duke!crm) at least i didnt ask what's Urs ???? -- god bless Lily St. Cyr -Rocky Horror Picture Show Name: James Turner Mail: Imagen Corp. 2650 San Tomas Expressway, P.O. Box 58101 Santa Clara, CA 95052-9400 AT&T: (408) 986-9400 UUCP: ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!imagen!negami!turner