(More than half of the following acronyms are from a Sep 85 message from harvard!topaz!BLUE!BRAIL@mit-eddie and anonymous friends.) 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 Emacs Masquerades As a Comfortable Shell Emacs Macht Alle Computer Schoen Eating Memory And Cycle Sucking Elvis Masterminds All Computer Software From : #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 ----------------------- > 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). ----------------------- > 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