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As usual when there is a word I recognise, I go looking for a Swedish reference in the docs/founders/etc. And sure enough the guy is currently a Swedish citizen.

Snabb means fast/quick in Swedish.

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The author, Luke Gorrie, is a true hacker's hacker who built a good chunk of Emacs' Slime environment for Common Lisp. He ended up in Sweden to be part of the first successful Erlang-based business Bluetail, which got sold to Nortel IIRC.

(I imagine "Snabb" is closely related to "snappy" in English.)

and for erlang folks on emacs, distel is god sent...

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