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When I w' lad everyone knew it stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. ;) I'm pretty sure though that Emacs is actually short for Editor MACroS. A nod t
by Lio 6y ago
When I w' lad everyone knew it stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. ;)
I'm pretty sure though that Emacs is actually short for Editor MACroS.
A nod to the fact that Emacs is really an extensible Lisp system rather than just an editor or IDE.
- alpaca128 6y agoAs far as I know E was just the name of an extensible editor back then, and the very first thing named Emacs was a useful collection of custom macros. And then followed various reimplementations of the whole program until one written in C stuck around.