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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Lundgren Jarmo wrote:
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> > for those who don't know what emacs is - it's one of the most used
> > editors in the unix world, alongside vi.
>
> I know _them_! You notice: They have percentually more vowels in their names
> (than a usual UNIX program) and I immediately remember them!
unix folklore from the past ... "if binary name was more than 5 characters
long, it would be waste of time to type, so, it would be useless." so
there's your explanation why unix commands tend to be cryptic.
> X Window should maybe be just IO!
no, actually, it's usually started with "startx".... or, like there's this
current "imitate windows, boot straight to X" -thing, it might be gdm or
kdm that takes care of starting X automagically ;P (note: typo is
intentional)
sakke
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