[TUHS] Re: emacs

On Thursday, 3 August 2023 at 17:19:10 -0700, Adam Thornton wrote: Coincidentally that's when I first used GNU Emacs on a Unix-like system (SCO Xenix, also coincidentally in Austin). The version was 18.51. But as Warner says, there were plenty of Emacs-lookalikes on other platforms, notably MINCE (MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs) on the Z-80, which I used from 1980, and others, including the micro Emacs that Warner used. The Emacs lineage (TECO → GNU Emacs) isn't as straight as it might appear. There was also a Gosling Emacs in the interim time, and I gather that rms used some of the concepts (screen refresh?) for GNU Emacs. Also I recall that the version numbering was a little defective, something like skipping a number of major version numbers because it seemed that enough time had passed. But I'm hazy on the details, and maybe somebody else can fill in. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog(a)lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php