On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Another
acronym is Esc Meta Alt Ctl Shift...
Good one!
Somewhere Out There (tm) is a web page full of EMACS acronyms.
And there was a pretty funny fake Exxx error code - I
think it was
"EMACS - Editor too big"?
"Editor too large"; it was in a list of fake error messages in a Usenix
article. Another was ENOTOBACCO - Read on empty pipe.
I was never happy with the size of EMACS, and it had
nothing to do with
the amount of memory resources used. That big a binary implies a very
large amount of source, and the more lines of code, the more places for
bugs... And it makes it harder to understand, for someone working on it
(to make a change/improvement).
I tried EMACS once (so I couldn't be accused of criticising it without
trying it) and immediately ran back to the comfort of VI.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."