The Modernization of Emacs

[Roy Smith]

In article <86y7ieoiv7.fsf at lola.quinscape.zz>, David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> 
wrote:

> Kaldrenon <kaldrenon at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm very, very new to emacs. I used it a little this past year in
> > college, but I didn't try at all to delve into its features. I'm
> > starting that process now, and frankly, the thought of it changing -
> > already- upsets me. I don't feel like the program ought to change in
> > order to accommodate me.
> 
> Actually, the "E" in "Emacs" stands for "extensible".  Part of the
> appeal of Emacs is that you can change it to accommodate you.

Actually, the "E" in Emacs stands for "Editor".  And the macs part stands 
for "Macros".  As in "Editor Macros".  It started out as a bunch of macros 
written in TECO.