Announcement: macports.el, an Emacs porcelain for MacPorts

[Sriranga Veeraraghavan]

Even further back, EMACS originally stood for Editor MACroS:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/Origin-of-the-term-Emacs.html

And as we all know, the Editor that EMACS paid homage to was ED, which is not only “THE STANDARD EDITOR” and "the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all” but is also "THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA!”:

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

:-)

-ranga

> On May 2, 2022, at 19:58, Peter West <pbw at pbw.id.au> wrote:
> 
> Ah, a trivia magnet.
> 
> Fun fact: emacs, of that which was to become emacs, was originally written in TECO, an editor, and obviously a very powerful one.
> 
> TECO attracted its own expansions. My favourite – Text Eraser and COrrupter.
> 
> —
> Peter West
> pbw at ehealth.id.au
> Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”
> 
>> On 3 May 2022, at 11:47 am, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Can you show it in action in a video please?I'm interested in Emacs,
>>> just switched to it…
>>> 
>>> I’ve added a screencast to the readme on 
>>> GitHub:https://github.com/amake/macports.el
>> 
>> Seen in various .sigs over the decades:
>> 
>>    EMACS - eight megs and constantly swapping
>> 
>>    "Enough Memory? A Concept Strange!"
>> 
>>    I thought it stood for Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift :)
>> 
>>    Emacs Makes A Computer Slow
>> 
>>    Eventually Munches All Computer Storage
>> 
>> Let the editor wars begin :-)
>> 
>> -- Dave
>