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Article #3310Re: Is your editor manly enough to edit itself?
From: Doug Mckenzie
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1988 14:57
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1988 14:57
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>>GNU-Emacs, the editor manly enough to edit itself. Don't leave home without >>it. >Would anyone like to debate whether "manly" is the appropriate >gender term. Since it is both doing and being done too, perhaps Editing oneself seems a bit masochistic to me. Reminds me of something I read about some unfortunate kid who performed surgery on himself. He did a "good" job: anaesthesia, sterile environment, good healing. The only trouble was, he didn't need any surgery.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpdslab!hpdstma!mck From: mck@hpdstma.HP.COM (Doug Mckenzie) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Is your editor manly enough to edit itself? Message-ID: <630001@hpdstma.HP.COM> Date: 13 Sep 88 14:57:05 GMT References: <1414@spp2.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard TCG Tech marketing, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 10