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Re: How to make Emacs popular again.
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: How to make Emacs popular again. |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:44:01 +0300 |
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> - I press {C-h k} and then choose Tools -> Search Files (Grep)...
>
> Side comment: if it runs "grep" command, I don't know why it is
> capitalized, but alright.
Initially GREP was an abbreviation, short for "Get REPresentation".
I learned about the meaning of GREP abbreviation from this implementation:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rsx/decus/rsx88b/373230/
As a command "grep" should be in lower case indeed. But OTOH,
on the menu all words are in title case (except for minor words):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
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