From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 21:51:05 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87imbtaju6.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <20200926163008.GS1349@protected.rcdrun.com> <87362zl3hy.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14790"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, James Lu , Jean Louis To: Mathias Dahl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 21:21:58 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kO49O-0003fr-Fg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 21:21:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37036 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kO49N-0005bZ-I9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:21:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59174) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kO48X-00054M-0A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from relay10.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.230]:52655) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kO48V-00024c-23 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-108-13.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.108.13]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay10.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 518B6240002; Thu, 1 Oct 2020 19:20:58 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Mathias Dahl's message of "Wed, 30 Sep 2020 22:51:02 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.178.230; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay10.mail.gandi.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/01 15:21:00 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256900 Archived-At: > Initially GREP was an abbreviation, short for "Get REPresentation". > I learned about the meaning of GREP abbreviation from this > implementation: > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rsx/decus/rsx88b/373230/ > > Wikipedia says its name comes from the ed command g/re/p (globally search > for a regular expression and print matching lines). Ok, on Wikipedia is probably the original acronym. All the rest are backronyms.