Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!browngr!msw 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 References: loral.560 Lines: 33 [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. -------- Tried to see your point of view, Mark Wachsler Hope your dreams will all come true. browngr!msw