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I started using Emacs at the AI lab in 1978. It's still my main development tool and probably still the program I spend most of my time in today.

I named my cat Emacs, and he's only three years old. His sister's name is Pip.

And to answer the question I get a lot: no, it would be morally reprehensible to name a cat after an inferior editor such as "vi".

I often thought that a cat could be named /bin/cat. After all, many cats seem to enjoy being in boxes or bins!

And his brothers /bin/bzcat, /bin/pacat, /bin/netcat and /bin/sqfscat.

You're likely aware of this, and certainly Don is, but for those unaware, PIP was the RSX-11 and CP/M equivalent to /bin/cat.

I'm going to name my next cat after my favorite Apple ][ DOS command:

]CATALOG

And my next dog after the way you warm restart DOS after you hit RESET with Integer Basic ROMs and get thrown into Woz's system monitor:

*3D0G

Awesome. I wasn't sure if anyone else remembered those. Formative stuff for me :-)

I can only imagine that Pip is an orange cat with typical orange cat characteristics like being crazy and breaking things occasionally.

You are correct: Nominative and chromatic determinism strikes again!

Emacs is a powerful, flexible, majestic, extensible silver tabby, so he also acts like his namesake: textual and functional determinism.

you can get a dog and call it vi

I’m a cat person but I also am fond of dogs so I would consider that unkind.

I still think you should have called your company Wingnut instead of Cygnus.

But does he have a gap buffer?

He is cute though.

So your cat is about to get fired?