From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A modern-mode? Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:09:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87v9ge3tet.fsf@gkayaalp.com> <83sgbh7py4.fsf@gnu.org> <7wo8m4zq1h.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25507"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Brinkhoff Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 18 06:10:32 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 1kJ7jD-0006VJ-R6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 06:10:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33526 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kJ7jC-0000Gw-Ub for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:10:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50910) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kJ7i3-00085c-VL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:09:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54575) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kJ7i3-0002wP-HX; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:09:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kJ7i1-0002bz-6p; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:09:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <7wo8m4zq1h.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (message from Lars Brinkhoff on Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:54:50 +0000) 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:256046 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > | A cocky novice once said to Stallman: "I can guess why the editor is > | called Emacs, but why is the justifier called Bolio?" > | > | Stallman replied forcefully: "Names are but names, 'Emack & Bolio's' > | is the name of a popular ice cream shop in Boston-town. Neither of > | these men had anything to do with the software." > | > | His question answered, yet unanswered, the novice turned to go, but > | Stallman called to him: "Neither Emack nor Bolio had anything to do > | with the ice cream shop, either." That joke is misleading, since I did not know any of that When Bolio was written -- around 1980 I think -- I did not know about the store. I was puzzled by thek text formatter's name, and asked what it meant. Then I was told about the store. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)