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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
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Subject: Re: Who invented `dabbrev-expand'?
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Date: 6 Feb 91 18:09:03 GMT
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akira@atson.asahi-np.co.jp (Akira Takiguchi) writes:


}     Hello editor historians :-),

}     You know, GNU emacs has a neat feature called `dabbrev-expand', a
}dynamic abbreviation expansion mechanism.  I like it very much.

}     My question is:  Where did it come from?  Is it an original feature
}of GNU emacs (or original tecomacs)?

I believe that the old ITS-TECO based emacs macros included an abbreviation
facility.  Dunno if it was as fancy as dabbrev-expand (since I didn't use it
then and don't use it now), but some sort of similar facility was there...

  /Bernie\