From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years?
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 07:15:22 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1703010708400.91557@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170226123956.DBD3C18C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
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."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-28 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-25 14:17 Arno Griffioen
2017-02-25 14:32 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-25 16:35 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-25 18:11 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-25 18:16 ` Brantley Coile
2017-02-25 17:31 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-25 17:34 ` Charles Anthony
2017-02-25 17:36 ` Brantley Coile
2017-02-25 18:28 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-02-27 5:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-25 17:40 ` Nemo
2017-02-25 17:43 ` Brantley Coile
2017-02-25 23:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-26 12:39 ` Noel Chiappa
2017-02-26 12:46 ` [TUHS] The size of EMACS, and what hides in kLOCs Michael Kjörling
2017-02-26 16:05 ` Nemo
2017-02-26 17:05 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-26 18:23 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-02-26 19:19 ` Jim Carpenter
2017-02-26 19:39 ` [TUHS] EMACS movemail suid root bug Michael Kjörling
[not found] ` <CALMnNGg3dRV0yPV1GgeqaOFG0Mb5PSNuqgPs8pLKOHYzurYEOg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-02-27 1:00 ` [TUHS] The size of EMACS, and what hides in kLOCs Nemo
2017-02-27 1:48 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-27 8:26 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-27 1:19 ` Jason Stevens
2017-02-27 2:13 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-26 13:32 ` [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? Tim Bradshaw
2017-02-26 14:19 ` Michael Kerpan
2017-02-26 14:54 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-26 15:25 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-02-26 15:55 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-26 15:37 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-02-26 15:52 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-26 16:06 ` tfb
2017-02-26 16:27 ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-26 18:32 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-02-27 16:04 ` Tony Finch
2017-02-27 23:51 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-26 16:22 ` Michael Kerpan
2017-02-26 16:36 ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-26 18:01 ` William Pechter
2017-02-26 18:40 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-02-26 16:06 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-02-26 16:30 ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-26 17:15 ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-26 17:20 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-26 17:23 ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-26 17:33 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-26 17:39 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-26 17:39 ` Michael Kerpan
2017-02-26 19:33 ` [TUHS] roff Larry McVoy
2017-02-26 19:34 ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-26 19:36 ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-26 19:46 ` Dan Cross
2017-02-26 19:41 ` Michael Kerpan
2017-02-26 21:27 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-26 21:28 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-27 13:59 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-02-28 20:15 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-02-28 20:22 ` [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? Lars Brinkhoff
2017-03-01 1:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-28 20:40 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2017-03-01 12:45 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-25 14:44 ` [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during theyears? jsteve
2017-02-25 19:02 ` [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? Al Kossow
2017-02-26 4:06 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-01 4:15 ` Gregg Levine
2017-03-01 7:17 ` arnold
2017-03-01 7:45 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-03-01 11:14 ` [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports duringthe years? jsteve
2017-03-01 14:54 ` [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? Dan Cross
2017-03-01 15:41 ` Nemo
2017-03-01 18:17 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-02 2:13 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-02 2:27 ` Gregg Levine
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