From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 07:15:22 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? In-Reply-To: <20170226123956.DBD3C18C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20170226123956.DBD3C18C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: 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."