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From: akira@atson.asahi-np.co.jp (Akira Takiguchi)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Who invented `dabbrev-expand'?
Message-ID: <1127@anprda.atson.asahi-np.co.jp>
Date: 8 Feb 91 11:45:44 GMT
References: <1123@anprda.atson.asahi-np.co.jp> <62566@bbn.BBN.COM>
Reply-To: akira@anprda.atson.asahi-np.co.jp (Akira Takiguchi)
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[Origination of dabbrev-expand]
In article <62566@bbn.BBN.COM> cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>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...

     I was ashamed to find the documentation in dabbrev.el (;_;).  It was
written in teco by Don Morrison for Twenex Emacs, based upon the idea by
Bob Keller (Keller@Utah-20).  No mention about the date written (I wish I
had access to some twenex machine with tecomacs :-), but it seems like a
pretty aged stuff.
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