From: "Joseph Holsten" <joseph@josephholsten.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Editor for Mortals History
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 11:28:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a9e28f3-ff88-47ca-a4c1-e7fc20eef619@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
Hello everyone! I’ve been digging into text editor history, and I found:
“This provided another huge step forward in usability and allowed us to
maintain our modeless approach to screen editing, which was, we feel,
superior to the Vi approach.” from https://www.coulouris.net/cs_history/em_story/
This makes me want to know em’s history outside the usual precursor-to-vi narrative. Does anyone know much about the timeline of em from 1971 (QMC Unix installation) to 1976 (Intro to W M Joy @ UCB)? And does anyone know of developments to it after 1976-04-29? That’s the last date within text in the https://www.coulouris.net/cs_history/em_story/emsource/ files. (Also grumble grumble broken touch feature detection in that shar, which indicates last mod of 1996-02-18).
Anyone other than Coulouris used em in the last 45 years?
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Joseph Holsten
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