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- 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
- Extended Macros Are Considered Superfluous
- Every Macro Accelerates Creation of Software
- Emacs Allows 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
- Evenings, Mornings, And a Couple of Saturdays
- Emacs Makes All Computing Simple
- Emacs Makes All Computers Slow
- Evil Manifestation Also Called Satan
- Eats Memory And Compromises Security
- Eventually Mallocs All Computer Storage
- Eight Megs And Continuous Swapping
- Escape Meta Alt Control Shift
- Eerie Men Acting Computer Science
- Emacs Means A Crummy Screen
- Ego Maniacs Addicted to Control Sequences
- Easy Man's Advanced Consciousness System
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- From <sys/errno.h>:
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- #define ENOSR 74 /* Out of streams resources */
- #define ENOMSG 75 /* No message of desired type */
- #define EMACS 76 /* Editor too large */
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- --- And other descendants:
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- GNU's Not Unix
- Mince Is Not a Complete Emacs
- Fine Is Not Emacs
- Thief Isn't Even Fine
- Eine Is Not Emacs
- Zwei Was Eine Initially
- Drei - Really Emacs Inside
- Sine is Not Eine
- Generally Not Used Except by Aged Computer Scientists
- Elle Looks Like Emacs
- INSTITUTE's Name Shows That It's Totally Unrelated To EMACS
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- > From: ncramer@bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
- > Subject: Re: Emacs
- > Date: 19 Jan 90 14:54:58 PST (19 Jan 90 22:54:58 GMT)
- > Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
- >
- > For a Previous Employer, I had to write an easily-usable-by-VMS-and-other-
- > business-weenies editor (that ran on the Lispm) which was named: DRIE
- >
- > DRIE Really Isn't EDT
- >
- > (...and, yes, I know it isn't spelled right.)
-
- -----------------------
- > From: wdh@well.UUCP (Bill Hofmann)
- > Subject: Re: Emacs
- > Date: 23 Jan 90 20:52:15 PST (24 Jan 90 04:52:15 GMT)
- > Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
- >
- > I'd believe that excruciatingly detailed history of EMACS.
- > However, I think that the influence of ice cream on computer systems,
- > especially around MIT, can't be underestimated. EMACS was the text editor,
- > and the document formatter was known as BOLIO. Now, at the time, one of
- > the better known premium ice cream places was Emac and Bolio's. Let's not
- > forget mixins in Lisp Machine Lisp (or flavors)....
- >
- > =Bill=
-
- -----------------------
- > From: nhess@dvlseq.oracle.com (Nate Hess)
- > Subject: Re: Emacs
- > Date: 01 Feb 90 19:08:10 PST (2 Feb 90 03:08:10 GMT)
- >
- > % ls -l /usr/local/bin/gnu/emacs /usr/ucb/vi /bin/ed /bin/cat
- > -rwxr-xr-x 1 nhess 1350975 Jan 20 18:18 /usr/local/bin/gnu/emacs
- > -rwxr-xr-x 6 root 155648 Nov 16 1988 /usr/ucb/vi
- > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 40960 Nov 16 1988 /bin/ed
- > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 9476 Nov 16 1988 /bin/cat
- >
- > It just keeps getting better and better, or worse and worse, depending
- > on how you look at it.
-
- -----------------------
- > From: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz)
- > Subject: Re: Emacs
- > Date: 02 Feb 90 14:30:50 PST (2 Feb 90 22:30:50 GMT)
- >
- > Well, there's always
- >
- > % ls -l /usr/bin/adb
- > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 114688 May 25 1989 /usr/bin/adb
- >
- > (emacs can't yet edit something the size of a decent filesystem).
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- -----------------------
- > From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
- > Subject: Re: Cryptic comments
- > Date: 02 Feb 90 04:39:31 PST (2 Feb 90 12:39:31 GMT)
- >
- > As barmar confirmed, many of the comments in Multics' Emacs by Bernie
- > Greenberg were in Latin. Most of the code was as well:
- >
- > (buffer-est-delenda-p ...)
- >
- > and all the fenestra code. Plus jeter-les-gazongas!
- >
- > ian
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