From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Emacs
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 07:50:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wef9q8bry.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190106024054.GA27103@eureka.lemis.com> (Greg Lehey's message of "Sun, 6 Jan 2019 13:40:54 +1100")
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> I don't think there's any serious doubt that rms wrote the original
> Emacs, in TECO.
That's an oversimplification. RMS may have done most of the work, but
he was not the first. Here's some interesting reading from 1978:
https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/eak/emacs.lore
Chris Hanson wrote:
> (Also, he didn’t write the original emacs. He took it over.)
That's right.
RMS is often credited with the ^R real-time display feature, but that
too originated earlier by Mikkelsen.
>> If I understand it correctly, though, he took significant
>> improvements, including screen redisplay, from Gosling Emacs.
>
> GNU emacs is not a descendant of the TECO package. What I’m referring
> to is that GNU emacs started as a set of hacks on Gosmacs, and the
> Gosmacs code had to be excised because it wasn’t actually something
> FSF could redistribute as their own.
Also correct. I found a copy of GNU Emacs 13.8 which I believe is the
first version to be distributed. It has the Gosling display code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-06 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-05 2:26 [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix Doug McIlroy
2019-01-05 2:35 ` Ronald Natalie
2019-01-05 15:31 ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-05 17:01 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-05 20:27 ` Paul Winalski
2019-01-05 21:38 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-05 21:51 ` Rob Pike
2019-01-05 21:53 ` Rob Pike
2019-01-05 21:52 ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-06 1:50 ` Chris Hanson
2019-01-06 2:18 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-05 17:07 ` Donald ODona
2019-01-05 21:20 ` joe mcguckin
2019-01-06 1:43 ` Chris Hanson
2019-01-06 2:40 ` [TUHS] Emacs (was: Isaacson v Unix) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-01-06 6:01 ` Donald ODona
2019-01-06 6:03 ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-06 6:26 ` Chris Hanson
2019-01-06 7:50 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2019-01-06 14:23 ` [TUHS] Emacs Andrew Luke Nesbit
2019-01-06 14:30 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-01-05 9:08 ` [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix William Corcoran
2019-01-05 12:09 ` Ed Carp
2019-01-05 14:15 ` Paul Winalski
2019-01-05 15:01 ` Ed Carp
2019-01-06 4:35 ` Bakul Shah
2019-01-06 4:52 ` Bakul Shah
2019-01-06 5:00 ` Toby Thain
2023-08-04 0:04 [TUHS] emacs Will Senn
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