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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
From <sys/errno.h>:
#define ENOSR 74 /* Out of streams resources */
#define ENOMSG 75 /* No message of desired type */
#define EMACS 76 /* Editor too large */
--- And other descendants:
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.)
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> 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=
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> 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.
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> 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