merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (01/20/90)
In article <21743@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, nott@unix (nancy nott) writes: | In the same vein as all of the posts about TECO, VAX, and PDP.... | What does Emacs mean? From the file etc/emacs.names in the GNU Emacs distribution: || From: harvard!topaz!BLUE!BRAIL@mit-eddie || Date: 9 Sep 85 17:25:27 EDT || Subject: EMACS -- What does it mean? || To: mit-prep!info-gnu-emacs@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU || || 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 || ------- || || From: ihnss!warren@mit-eddie (Warren Montgomery) || Newsgroups: net.emacs || Subject: Re: EMACS -- What does it mean? || Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 09:14:24 EDT || Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL || Apparently-To: emacs-netnews-distribution@mit-prep || || 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 || || Date: Wed, 18 Sep 85 10:11:04 edt || From: inmet!tower@inmet.inmet (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) <inmet!tower@cca-unix> || Subject: Re: EMACS -- What does it mean? || To: tower@MIT-PREP.ARPA || || Received: by inmet.uucp (4.12/inmet) id AA02199; Wed, 18 Sep 85 09:10:17 edt || Date: Wed, 18 Sep 85 09:10:17 edt || Message-Id: <8509181310.AA02199@inmet.uucp> || Uucp-Paths: {bellcore,ima,ihnp4}!inmet!tower || Arpa-Path: ima!inmet!tower@CCA-UNIX.ARPA || Organization: Intermetrics, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA || Home: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 || /* Written 6:48 pm Sep 14, 1985 by gml@ssc-vax in inmet:net.emacs */ || /* ---------- "Re: EMACS -- What does it mean?" ---------- */ || Pleeeeeeeze!!! Nice try on the meaning of EMACS. I believe the || correct acronym is: || || Emacs || Makes || All || Computing || Simple || || Thank you, and Good Night || /* End of text from inmet:net.emacs */ || || From: ho95e!wcs@mit-eddie (Bill.Stewart.4K435.x0705) || Newsgroups: net.emacs || Subject: Re: EMACS -- What does it mean? || Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 21:43:54 EDT || Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ || Apparently-To: emacs-netnews-distribution@mit-prep || || > > 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 || || Path: mit-eddie!think!harvard!bbnccv!bbncca!linus!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!edison!ta2 || From: edison!ta2@mit-eddie (tom allebrandi) || Newsgroups: net.emacs || Subject: Re: Re: EMACS -- What does it mean? || Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 18:11:55 EDT || Organization: General Electric's Mountain Resort || Apparently-To: emacs-netnews-distribution@mit-prep || || > 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 || ............... || || Date: Wed, 16 Oct 85 01:38:12 edt || From: inmet!tower (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) <inmet!tower@cca-unix> || Subject: more names || To: tower@MIT-PREP.ARPA || || Received: by inmet.uucp (4.12/inmet) id AA12997; Tue, 15 Oct 85 22:31:39 edt || Date: Tue, 15 Oct 85 22:31:39 edt || Message-Id: <8510160231.AA12997@inmet.uucp> || Uucp-Paths: {bellcore,ima,ihnp4}!inmet!tower || Arpa-Path: ima!inmet!tower@CCA-UNIX.ARPA || Organization: Intermetrics, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA || Home: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 || /* Written 12:20 pm Oct 14, 1985 by rs@mirror.UUCP in inmet:net.emacs */ || || || SINE: Sine Is Not Emacs || (MIT Architecture Machine Group) || || EINE: Eine is Not Emacs || (MIT Lisp Machine) || || ZWEI: Zwei Was Eine Initially || ("rev2" of EINE) || || -- || Rich $alz {mit-eddie, ihnp4!inmet, wjh12, cca, datacube} !mirror!rs || Mirror Systems 2067 Massachusetts Ave. || 617-661-0777 Cambridge, MA, 02140 || /* End of text from inmet:net.emacs */ || || Path: mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!gatech!ulysses!pajb || From: ulysses!pajb@mit-eddie (Paul Bennett) || Newsgroups: net.emacs || Subject: Here we go again ... || Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 17:26:49 EDT || Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill || Apparently-To: emacs-netnews-distribution@mit-prep || || || > EINE: Eine is Not Emacs || > (MIT Lisp Machine) || > || > ZWEI: Zwei Was Eine Initially || > ("rev2" of EINE) || || DREI: DREI - Really Emacs Inside || (Exists only in my head) || || Paul. || || UUCP: {decvax,allegra,vax135,ucbvax}!ulysses!circe!pajb || DDD: (201) 582 7346 || USPS: AT&T Bell Labs, Room 5E-103, Murray Hill, NJ 07974 || || .. I don't care WHO you are, you're not walking on the water while I'M fishing.-- || Paul. || || UUCP: {decvax,allegra,vax135,ucbvax}!ulysses!circe!pajb || DDD: (201) 582 7346 || USPS: AT&T Bell Labs, Room 5E-103, Murray Hill, NJ 07974 || || .. I don't care WHO you are, you're not walking on the water while I'M fishing. Just another Emacs hacker, -- /== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \== Cute Quote: "Welcome to Oregon... Home of the California Raisins!" ==/
profesor@wpi.wpi.edu (Matthew E Cross) (01/20/90)
And, my favorite: Evil Manifestation Also Called Satan P.S. - I love EMACS (I'm using it now!) I just like the acronym!