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What does EMACS mean?

Posted July 30, 2001 06:15 | Category: Geek Jokes | #

Officially: Editing MACroS.

Unofficially:

E	M	A	C	S
Even a	Master of	Arts	Comes	Simpler
Emacs	Manuals	Are	Cryptic and	Surreal
Energetic	Merchants	Always	Cultivate	Sales
Each	Manual's	Audience is	Completely	Stupified
Emacs	Means	A	Crappy	Screen
Eventually	Munches	All	Computer	Storage
Even	My	Aunt	Crashes the	System
Eradication of	Memory	Accomplished with	Complete	Simplicity
Elsewhere	Maybe	Alternative	Civilizations	Survive
Egregious	Managers	Actively	Court	Stallman
Esoteric	Malleability	Always	Considered	Silly
Emacs	Manuals	Always	Cause	Senility
Easily	Maintained with the	Assistance of	Chemical	Solutions
EMACS	MACRO	ACTED	CREDO	SODOM
Edwardian	Manifestation of	All	Colonial	Sins
Except by	Middle	Aged	Computer	Scientists
Extended	Macros	Are	Considered	Superfluous
Every	Mode	Accelerates	Creation of	Software
Elsewhere	Maybe	All	Commands are	Simple
Emacs	May	Allow	Customised	Screwups
Excellent	Manuals	Are	Clearly	Suppressed
Emetic	Macros	Assault	Core and	Segmentation
Embarrassed	Manual-Writer	Accused of	Communist	Subversion
Extensibilty and	Modifiability	Aggravate	Confirmed	Simpletons
Emacs	May	Annihilate	Command	Structures
Easily	Mangles,	Aborts,	Crashes and	Stupifies
Extraneous	Macros	And	Commands	Stink
Exceptionally	Mediocre	Algorithm for	Computer	Scientists
EMACS	Makes no	Allowances	Considering its	Stiff price
Equine	Mammals	Are	Considerably	Smaller
Embarrasingly	Mundane	Advertising	Cuts	Sales
Every	Moron	Assumes	CCA is	Superior
Exceptionally	Mediocre	Autocratic	Control	System
EMACS	May	Alienate	Clients and	Supporters
Excavating	Mayan	Architecture	Comes	Simpler
Erasing	Minds	Allows	Complete	Submission
Every	Male	Adolescent	Craves	Sex
Elephantine	Memory	Absolutely	Considered	Sine que non
Emacs	Makers	Are	Crazy	Sickos
Eenie Meenie Miney Mo	Macros	Are	Completely	Slow
Experience the	Mildest	Ad	Campaign ever	Seen
Emacs	Makefiles	Annihilate	C-	Shells
Eradication of	Memory	Accomplished with	Complete	Simplicity
Emetic	Macros	Assault	Core and	Segmentation
Epileptic	MLisp	Aggravates	Compiler	Seizures
Eleven thousand	Monkeys	Asynchronously	Crank out these	Slogans
Emacs	Makes	All	Computing	Simple
Evenings,	Mornings,	And a	Couple of	Saturdays

In reference to the odd hours that went into the creation of my implementation. -- ihnss!warren (Warren Montgomery) 10 Sep 85

And while we're on the topic...

GNU = GNU's Not UNIX
GNU = Generally Not Used
FINE = FINE Is Not Emacs
THIEF = THief Isn't Even Fine
MINCE = Mince Is Not a Complete Emacs
SINE = Sine Is Not Emacs (MIT Architecture Machine Group)
EINE = Eine is Not Emacs
ZWEI = Zwei Was Eine Initially
DREI = DREI: Really Emacs Inside
(exists only in the mind of Paul Bennett (ulysses!pajb)

Posted to alt.folklore.computers by raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) On 2/22/91

3 comments

Comments:

Re: What does EMACS mean?
Jim wrote on Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:53

What about: "Escape Meta Alt Control Shift"?

Re: Re: What does EMACS mean?
Bill Ward wrote on Mon, 21 Feb 2005 04:24

Yes, that's a good one!

Re: What does EMACS mean?
wrote on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:22

emacs makes all coding simple

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