From: mwood AT indyvax DOT iupui DOT edu (Mark H. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: EMACS
Message-ID: <1997Jul31.091112.28931@indyvax.iupui.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 97 09:11:12 -0500
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In article <5rj693$9r8$1 AT vnetnews DOT value DOT net>, mschulter AT  DOT value DOT net (M. Schulter) writes:
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> The name is short for Editor MACroS; Emacs was developed by the famous
> Richard M. Stallman (RMS), who continues to play a central role in the
> maintenance and further improvement of this legendary piece of
> cooperatively evolving software.

Just to complete the history lesson:  it's called that because its first
incarnation was as a collection of macros for TECO (Tape Editor and COrrector),
a very nice and extremely compact editor from days of yore.  EMACS has been
through several complete reimplementations since then but just keeps getting
more and more interesting.

> While DJGPP Emacs is big and complex, it needn't be unfriendly; there's a
> tutorial for beginners that I would say is one of the best for any
> product, freeware or otherwise.

I use it with pleasure on Linux and DOS.  (On OpenVMS we still have EVE....)
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