The Modernization of Emacs

[David Kastrup]

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:

> 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.

It's not like I did not know this.  Don't ask me what got into my head
here.

-- 
David Kastrup