simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard) (10/15/84)
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Emacs contains (among many other things) a command describe-word-in-
buffer, which takes the word nearest the cursor and looks it up in a data
base, printing the results. If there is nothing in the data base, it prints
"No help for ..." where ... is the word nearest the cursor.
Just a while ago, I edited a short file that included at one point the
word "politicians". I intended to exit, and accidentally typed the key
sequence for describe-word-in-buffer instead of exit-emacs. Emacs then
dutifully looked in its data base, then printed out:
"No help for politicians"
Pretty savvy for an editor, eh?
--
[ I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet ]
Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
{ucbvax, ittvax!dcdwest}!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!simardguido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) (10/18/84)
For a similar amusement: try typing (to the shell, not Emacs): make love Guess what's the answer?
msw@browngr.UUCP (Mark Wachsler) (10/21/84)
[bug chow] > Emacs contains (among many other things) a command describe-word-in- >buffer, which takes the word nearest the cursor and looks it up in a data >base, printing the results. If there is nothing in the data base, it prints >"No help for ..." where ... is the word nearest the cursor. > > Just a while ago, I edited a short file that included at one point the >word "politicians". I intended to exit, and accidentally typed the key >sequence for describe-word-in-buffer instead of exit-emacs. Emacs then >dutifully looked in its data base, then printed out: > > "No help for politicians" > > Pretty savvy for an editor, eh? This reminds me of the way that various systems respond to the command "make love". Any system with TECO which uses "make" as a command to invoke TECO (e.g. RSTS, RSX (I think), TOPS, etc.) is programmed to respond by typing: not war? Of course Unix*, being a reasonable operating system, doesn't need any special casing to respond weirdly to this command. It gives you the message: Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop. Oh, well, enough of this. *Eunuchs is a registered trademark of a big ex-monopoly. -------- Tried to see your point of view, Mark Wachsler Hope your dreams will all come true. browngr!msw
novick@uo-vax1.UUCP (novick) (10/22/84)
>For a similar amusement: try typing (to the shell, not Emacs): > make love >Guess what's the answer? The creators of TECO, EMACS's grandfather, for the DEC-10 had a timely and clever rejoinder to this command (circa 1972). Non-TECO users should note that 'make foo' invoked TECO. Anyway, the session would look like this: .make love NOT WAR? ... --David Novick uoregon!vax1!novick
pedz@smu.UUCP (10/22/84)
What about all of the teco amusements (one is make love). The version of teco I am referring to is on RSTS on a PDP 11/70. I do not know if all versions have these things. Perry
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (10/22/84)
> For a similar amusement: try typing (to the shell, not Emacs): > make love > Guess what's the answer? The obvious answer is: Not War? [4K CORE] I modified our make file generator at Martin Marrietta to insert the appropriate rules in all the makefiles. -Ron Well, the DEC-10 users thought it was funny.
brian@digi-g.UUCP (Brian Westley) (10/23/84)
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<goto bug>
The U of Minnesota had a Univac system with a Basic interpreter that would do:
me 20 goto j100
comp ?syntax error
But special cased this one -
me 20 goto hell
comp Nasty, nasty nasty!
Merlyn Leroydaemon@decwrl.UUCP (The devil himself) (10/26/84)
Re: Emacs is Smarter Than We Think_____________________________________________
Okay, let's get these all straight so that we can stop talking about
them and return to the normal inactivity of this newsgroup.
TECO (Text Editor and COrrector) is an editor that runs on every DEC
operating system. The MAKE command is used when you want to create a new
file with TECO. If you type MAKE LOVE, you get the following:
Not war?
As well as a file called LOVE.
On a Unix system, if you type MAKE LOVE, you get this:
Don't know how to make love.
Unless, of course, your makefile has instructions on making love.
This isn't very relevant (but then, what is?), but on a RSTS system,
if you type KILL BY HANGING, you get this:
String is needed.
<_Jym_>
:::::::::::::::: Jym Dyer
::::' :: `:::: Dracut, Massachusetts
::' :: `::
:: :: :: DYER%VAXUUM.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA
:: .::::. :: {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vaxuum!dyer
::..:' :: `:..::
::::. :: .:::: Statements made in this article are my own; they might not
:::::::::::::::: reflect the views of |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Corporation.mac@tesla.UUCP (Michael Mc Namara) (11/08/84)
You could also type:
gotta light?
at unix's csh.....
MAC @ CORNELL