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From: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
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Subject: Re: Emacs......meaning???
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In article <1991Feb12.092635.5393@cs.city.ac.uk> dh130@cs.city.ac.uk (Andrew Thompson) writes:

>3) What does emacs mean? (Is it of yiddish decent as with Gulam?)

EMACS = Editing MACroS

Due to the original DEC20 implementation as a bunch of macros for TECO.
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