[comp.emacs] "EINE Is Not Emacs", etc.

WEBSTER@DAL.BITNET.UUCP (08/04/87)

I'm compiling a list of the acronyms used in naming members of
the Emacs family.  Names of programs that contain other names,
or references to Emacs, are especially sought.

For example:

MINT - "Mint is not TRAC" - underlying language of FREEMACS

Please email me names and short descriptions.  Summaries upon request.

-chris <WEBSTER@DAL.BITNET>

USGCORB@LEHIIBM1.BITNET (Stephen Corbesero) (08/04/87)

MINCE, Mince is not EMACS, a CP/M and PC-DOS emacs-like editor, customizable
       in C written by Mark of the Unicorn before they released Final Word.

ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (08/04/87)

GNU - GNU is Not UNIX
JOVE - Jonathan's Own Version of EMACS
MINCE - Mince is Not Complete Emacs

By the way, UniPress has an entire wall of their technical
office covered with proposed explanations of the "EMACS"
acronym.  (For those who don't know, EMACS is not an acronym
for anything, it stands for Editor Macros).

-it-r

shor@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Melinda Shore) (08/04/87)

In article <8708041443.AA25049@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> USGCORB@LEHIIBM1.BITNET (Stephen Corbesero) writes:
>MINCE, Mince is not EMACS

This should be "Mince IS Not Complete EMACS"
-- 
Melinda Shore                                   ..!hao!oddjob!sphinx!shor
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center                     shore@morgul.psc.edu

cje@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt) (08/04/87)

In article <13699@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
writes:

> By the way, UniPress has an entire wall of their technical
> office covered with proposed explanations of the "EMACS" acronym.

For example:

				EMACS
				MACRO
				ACTED
				CREDO
				SODOM
-- 
Chris Jarocha-Ernst
UUCP: {ames, cbosgd, harvard, moss, seismo}!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!cje
ARPA: JAROCHAERNST@ZODIAC.RUTGERS.EDU

matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Matt Crawford) (08/04/87)

INSTITUTE: Institute's Name Shows That It's Totally
	   Unrelated To Emacs.
________________________________________________________
Matt	     University		matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu
Crawford     of Chicago     {astrovax,ihnp4}!oddjob!matt

jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) (08/05/87)

SCAME (by Leif Samuelsson) : SCreen oriented Anti Misery Editor


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asp@puck.UUCP (Andy Puchrik) (08/05/87)

In article <13699@topaz.rutgers.edu>, ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
writes:
> GNU - GNU is Not UNIX
> JOVE - Jonathan's Own Version of EMACS
> MINCE - Mince is Not Complete Emacs
Don't forget FINE for TOPS-10 (FINE Is Not EMACS).
-- 
Internet: asp@puck.UUCP				Andy Puchrik
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asjoshi@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU (Amit S. Joshi) (08/09/87)

And I always thought that ...
EMACS = Edit Me A Character String !!

cracraft@ccicpg.UUCP (Stuart Cracraft) (08/10/87)

In article <8708040512.AA17335@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> WEBSTER@DAL.BITNET (Chris Webster) writes:
>I'm compiling a list of the acronyms used in naming members of
>the Emacs family.  Names of programs that contain other names,
>or references to Emacs, are especially sought.
>

If you remember EINE, then how can you forget ZWEI?
EINE (German for "one") means, as you say, "Eine is Not Emacs".
ZWEI (German for "two") means "Zwei was Eine Initially."
I believe these were the development names for the
original LISP Machine (CADR's) Emacs's at MIT.

Someone at MIT want to fill us in?

	Stuart

roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (08/11/87)

After Eine, of course, came Zwei: Zwei Was Eine Initially (or maybe Zwei
Was Emacs Initially?).
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

jeff@aiva.UUCP (08/28/87)

In article <206@puck.UUCP> asp@puck.UUCP (Andy Puchrik) writes:
>Don't forget FINE for TOPS-10 (FINE Is Not EMACS).

We also had THIEF (This Here Isn't Even Fine), written when Richard
O'Keefe found himself on a PDP-11 instead of TOPS-10.

db@its63b.UUCP (08/31/87)

In article <158@aiva.ed.ac.uk> jeff@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>In article <206@puck.UUCP> asp@puck.UUCP (Andy Puchrik) writes:
>>Don't forget FINE for TOPS-10 (FINE Is Not EMACS).
>
>We also had THIEF (This Here Isn't Even Fine), written when Richard
>O'Keefe found himself on a PDP-11 instead of TOPS-10.

The version of emacs in INRIA's Centaur system (an experimental system for
generating programming environments) is called PEPE -- PEPE Est Presque EMACS.

Have you included DIRE -- DIRE Is Really Emacs ?

My favourite acronym is the one Graeme Ritchie came up with for Tony Cohn's
many sorted logic.  LLAMA -- Logic Lacking A Meaningful Acronym.

gk@hpisod2.HP.COM (Gregg B. Kellogg) (09/13/87)

Don't forget ZWEI -- Zwei Was Eine Initially, seen on a Lisp Machine many
years ago.

Gregg Kellogg
Hewlett Packard Co.
ITG/ISO/HP-UX Lab
Cupertino, CA
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