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• GNUMACS /gnoo'maks/ n. [contraction of `GNU EMACS'] Often-heard abbreviated name for the GNU project's flagship tool, EMACS.
  Used esp. in contrast with GOSMACS....
• GOSMACS: /goz'maks/ [contraction of `Gosling EMACS'] n.
  The first {EMACS}-in-C implementation, predating but now largely eclipsed by {GNUMACS}....
• GNU: /gnoo/, *not* /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not UNIX!
  ', see {{recursive acronym}}] A UNIX-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman &l...
• Emacs -- the choice of a GNU generation.
• EMACS /ee'maks/ n. [from Editing MACroS] The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it.
  It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab...
• ecursive acronym:: pl.n. A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms/abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms/abbreviations.
  The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not EMACS") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially")....
• GNU /gnoo/, not /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not Unix!
  ', see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman &l...
• GOSMACS /goz'maks/ n. [contraction of `Gosling EMACS'] The first EMACS-in-C implementation, predating but now largely eclipsed by GNUMACS.
  Originally freeware; a commercial version was modestly popular as `UniPress EMACS' during the 1980s....
• vi: /V-I/, *not* /vi:/ and *never* /siks/ [from `Visual Interface'] n.
  A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early {BSD} release....