Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hey Emacs


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was Keep merger can be further discussed on the talk page if desired. Eluchil404 08:21, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey Emacs

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Wikipedia is not a hacker/computer usage or other slang and idiom guide. Should be deleted RWR8189 05:47, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge into Emacs. John Vandenberg 10:17, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge or maybe Keep - I've been using emacs for almost 20 years now and I had never heard that term, but google show some 14k hits.  Google groups show references all the way back to 1995.  Ya learn somethin' new every day. Wrs1864 13:09, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge or Keep - Basically what Wrs1864 said... .V. (talk) 14:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment going by the last line of the article: What the hell does "Hey Emacs" mean??? Someone please describe further! this should have been placed on the Reference Desk, not in article space. Tonywalton | Talk 15:19, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge to EMACS. Useful information, but too narrow scope to have its own article. J I P  | Talk 15:34, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep (or possibly merge). I can explain this, even though I am no experienced emacs user. Basically, putting (for example) "-*- perl -*-" on the first or second line of a text file causes emacs, when it opens the file, to assume that it is a perl program and open it in perl-mode. Since the text would be confusing to non-emacs users by itself, it may have become common in some circles to write "hey emacs, this is a -*- perl -*- file" by way of explanation. Emacs will still understand it, but it may be more readable to humans. As for the article, I can't say what the normal term for this is (the xemacs manual doesn't give it a name) but judging by the examples the article's creator has found, this may be it. I'll rewrite the article and make a post on the author's talk page to explain. --N Shar 00:29, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Article rewritten and notice posted to author's talk page. Further comments would be greatly appreciated. --N Shar 00:46, 14 January 2007 (UTC)


 * N Shar's changes make the article readable, and now that I take the time, the article explains something that I have often seen and been curious about. A merge with emacs wouldnt do this justice as people wont read a long article to figure out a nuance of an editor that they dont use.  Maybe this could moved to emacs file mode or just text editor mode to allow artifacts of other editors to be added.  Maybe a merge into File_format? John Vandenberg 01:07, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Please keep or at worst merge to Emacs. I'm going to start doing this myself, to end questions about my code from users of lesser editors!--OinkOink 06:06, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge to Emacs, a significant emacsism but not really worthy of an article of its own. There's another problem too, I'm not sure if this is actually called "Hey Emacs" anywhere except in slang (and I've not even heard it actually called that, even when I've seen the "Hey Emacs, this is a -*- foo -*- file" expression). XEmacs documentation calls this with a technical term "local variables list" and it can actually have an expanded format. It would probably be worthwhile to have an article about the same phenomenon in other editors as well (jEdit seems to do similar thing, for example). --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 12:30, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge to Emacs or change the name. Hello, I am the author of the original version of the article, in which I stated the circumstances of "Hey Emacs" as a question without knowing the answer.  It is not explained anywhere else on the Internet.  I think there's a place for it somewhere.  --Ajo Mama 02:01, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.