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| From: | Juri Linkov |
| Subject: | Re: How to make Emacs popular again. |
| Date: | Thu, 01 Oct 2020 21:51:05 +0300 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> 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/ > > Wikipedia says its name comes from the ed command g/re/p (globally search > for a regular expression and print matching lines). Ok, on Wikipedia is probably the original acronym. All the rest are backronyms.
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