On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:21 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:01 pm, Russ Kepler wrote: > > As long as you don't invoke the dreaded emacs you're all right with me. > > (There's something wrong with an editor that hauls around an eliza in > > every instance). > > Ok. Would you please repeat that, more slowly this time, and in newbie > English? Thanks.
Emacs is a honkin' big program that initially was intended to be an editor. The vi crowd always thought that the name stood for "Eighty Megabytes And Constantly Swapping". I was making fun of the propensity of the emacs crowd to cram about everything they can into emacs. It's got a lisp environment, and in there it has a program that simulates a non-directive psychologist. The latter program's name is eliza, some folks know it as doctor. All it really does is a simple word analysis of your statements and regurgitates it back at you (or the generic response "Hmmmm" if it can't figure out what to say).
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