From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:19:08 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] TECO was: Re: basic tools / Universal Unix In-Reply-To: <1f60403b-fc74-35e7-18b9-a33d0d6ef2fb@kilonet.net> References: <20171030141645.6F81C18C0E7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20171115021648.GL6265@mcvoy.com> <6b4ef803-489b-00f5-4a87-14ab907090f8@gmail.com> <108d318d-3879-e056-8b63-f333f85e5516@kilonet.net> <8b1ce7d5-d626-b523-d134-60efd61a0386@kilonet.net> <1f60403b-fc74-35e7-18b9-a33d0d6ef2fb@kilonet.net> Message-ID: On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Arthur Krewat wrote: > > When did EMACS start coloring things? > ​I'm fairly sure, Gosling EMACS could do color by '83 when we had it on the Masscomp systems.​ Cantrell's Teco was a year or two later always support color in some manner, because was a graphics guy at Masscomp (and DEC before that). I'm dating this by, the fact I had left Berkeley by then. PC or one of the HW folks had written a set of EMACS macro's to emulate VMS's EDT for the ex-DEC HW guys which used color. The MIT contingent was all EMACS, but we switched to Zimmerman's EMACS when we hired Steve I want to say in 84 or 85. I remember there was some heartache because Zimmerman EMACS was very close to ITS EMACS and preferred by the ex-MIT folks (unlike Gosling EMACS). But the color stuff for EDT broke and there was complaining from the HW folks. [Andy Tannenbaum, Eric Ginger and I were the die hard ed/vi folks - which in those days was BW - to this day even with vim, I still rarely use colors with that editor]. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: