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From: mf0w+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Michel Fougeres)
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Subject: Re: Who invented `dabbrev-expand'?
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Date: 8 Mar 91 22:25:06 GMT
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I cannot speak in technical language since I use computers basically to
write stories and I am not a programmer, but I remember that when CMU
introduced the whole campus to Emacs (I guess in the late 70's) when the
campus was still using basically the mainframe, I discovered the abbrev.
system in the Emacs book and I used it a lot.   I am sure, as a
correspondant   here mentioned, that it was already quite many years in
existence.   It is indeed annoying to find out that some people have
reivented the wheel and boast  about it.  But it is also very human.   I
would not be surprised myself if the "new inventors" tried to patent
their re-invented wheel.

                                        Michel Fougeres