Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site loral.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!simard From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard) Newsgroups: net.emacs,net.jokes Subject: Emacs is smarter than we think Message-ID: <560@loral.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 13:48:47 EDT Article-I.D.: loral.560 Posted: Mon Oct 15 13:48:47 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Oct-84 04:55:53 EDT Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA Lines: 23 Xref: 612 9129 [] 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? -- [ I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet ] Ray Simard Loral Instrumentation, San Diego {ucbvax, ittvax!dcdwest}!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!simard