Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs

Re:Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs by Bilal_io on Friday August 08, 2025 @05:46PM (#44842016)

Clever name. For thos curious Efrit is Genie in Arabic and possibly the same in neighboring languages such as Persian and Turkish..

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Re:Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs by dragonwriter on Friday August 08, 2025 @05:52PM (#44842055)

> For thos curious Efrit is Genie in Arabi

More precisely, as I understand it, “genie" is an anglicization of its Arabic equivalent, “jinn"; Efrit is a specific kind of jinn.

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Re:Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs by kgwgk on Friday August 08, 2025 @06:01PM (#44842130)

Genie comes from Latin via French, it's not (just) a transliteration.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/genie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_(mythology)

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Re:Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs by wging on Friday August 08, 2025 @07:29PM (#44842750)

I think it might be 'e' for 'emacs' (there's precedent: eglot, eldoc, eshell, erc, emms) combined with 'ifrit', since "efrit" is a much less common spelling.

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Re:Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs by onehair on Friday August 08, 2025 @08:07PM (#44842949)

Countries of origin kind of affect what's common. Where I'm from will write it efrit

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Re:Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs by _steve_yegge_ on Friday August 08, 2025 @09:02PM (#44843202)

Yes, that's exactly why I chose it. It starts with an 'e' and it's not a super common spelling, so it wasn't taken.

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