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dstorrs on Jan 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tron Legacy (2010)

Actually, it stood for "Editing MACroS" [1]. There are other expansions though -- see [2] below.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-faq.html#Origin-of-t...

[2] http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/gnuemacs.acro.exp.html

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