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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.emacs,net.jokes
Subject: Emacs is smarter than we think
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Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 13:48:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 15 13:48:47 1984
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     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
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