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From: msw@browngr.UUCP (Mark Wachsler)
Newsgroups: net.emacs,net.jokes
Subject: Re: Emacs is smarter than we think
Message-ID: <1451@browngr.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Oct-84 01:21:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: browngr.1451
Posted: Sun Oct 21 01:21:21 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Oct-84 02:38:27 EDT
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[bug chow]

>     Emacs contains (among many other things)  a  command  describe-word-in-
>buffer,  which  takes  the word nearest the cursor and looks it up in a data
>base, printing the results. If there is nothing in the data base, it  prints
>"No help for ..." where ... is the word nearest the cursor.
>
>     Just a while ago, I edited a short file that included at one point  the
>word  "politicians".  I  intended  to  exit,  and accidentally typed the key
>sequence for describe-word-in-buffer  instead  of  exit-emacs.   Emacs  then
>dutifully looked in its data base, then printed out:
>
>     "No help for politicians"
>
>     Pretty savvy for an editor, eh?

This reminds me of the way that various systems respond to the command
"make love".  Any system with TECO which uses "make" as a command to
invoke TECO (e.g. RSTS, RSX (I think), TOPS, etc.) is programmed to
respond by typing:
	not war?
Of course Unix*, being a reasonable operating system, doesn't need
any special casing to respond weirdly to this command.  It gives you
the message:

	Make:  Don't know how to make love.  Stop.

Oh, well, enough of this.

*Eunuchs is a registered trademark of a big ex-monopoly.
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Tried to see your point of view,		Mark Wachsler
Hope your dreams will all come true.		browngr!msw