Emacs, n:
A slow-moving parody of a text editor.
A slow-moving parody of a text editor.
Related:
- EMACS /ee'maks/ n.
[from Editing MACroS] The ne plus
ultra of hacker editors
a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system... - vi: /V-I/, *not* /vi:/ and *never* /siks/ [from
`Visual Interface'] n
A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for... - Ed is the standard text
editor... - ed n.
"ed is the standard text editor." Line taken
from original the Unix manual page on ed
an ancient line-oriented editor that is by now used... - vi /V-I/, not /vi:/ and never /siks/ n.
[from `Visual Interface'] A screen editor crufted together by
Bill Joy for an early BSD release
Became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly... - miswart /mis-wort/ n.
[from wart by analogy with
misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a
wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing
For example, in some versions of the EMACS text... - miswart: /mis-wort/ [from {wart} by analogy with {misbug}] n
A {feature} that superficially appears to be a {wart}... - EMACS belongs in <sys/errno.h
Editor too big... - SOS /S-O-S/
n.,obs. An infamously losing text
editor
Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed...
