On Thu, Aug 3, 2023, 6:19 PM Adam Thornton wrote: > There are certainly teco implementations for Unix, although I don't know > if it was ever anyone's default editor anywhere. Indeed, there are > multiple implementations: I switched from a C teco implementation to pyteco > in the Rubin Science Platform JupyterLab implementation (its utility is of > course dubious, but this is part of both my nefarious plan to make Jupyter > not merely mean "Julia, Python, and R", but to use that "e" -- and > reassociate it with the "t" -- by making it mean "Julia, Python, Teco, and > R", and also to include an easter egg for a fellow project member who is a > teco fan). > > The first Emacs I used was GNU emacs at already version...16 or > something? In 1989, on ... I don't remember what the main system I used at > the UT Austin Chaos Lab was, actually; we had an SGI Iris, but that wasn't > the machine I did my editing on. But by 1989 it was certainly > well-available and established. > We used some stripped down emacs in 1985 on the vax 11/750 running 4.2bsd. I built micro emacs for my DEC Rainbow under MS-DOS in the same time period... Warner On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 5:04 PM Will Senn wrote: > >> As a longtime user and lover of ed/ex/vi, I don't know much about emacs, >> but lately I've been using it more (as it seems like any self-respecting >> lisper, has to at least have a passing acquaintance with it). I recently >> went off and got MACLISP running in ITS. As part of that exploration, I >> used EMACS, but not just any old emacs, emacs in it's first incarnation as >> a set of TECO macros. To me, it just seemed like EMACS. I won't bore you >> with the details - imagine lots of control and escape sequences, many of >> which are the same today as then. This was late 70's stuff. >> >> My question for the group is - when did emacs arrive in unix and was it a >> full fledged text editor when it came or was it sitting on top of some >> other subssystem in unix? Was TECO ever on unix? >> >> Will >> >