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Re: How to make Emacs popular again.


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:44:01 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> - 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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