26 Feb
2017
26 Feb
'17
3:54 p.m.
Michael Kerpan <madcrow.maxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Oops. Meant to send this to this list but sent it
privately. Here's a
second try:
My supposition is that EMACS was basically Stallman's attempt to bring in
all the things he liked about the LISP Machine environment into the Unix
world through the back door. The original PDP-10 EMACS really was just a
pile of macros which turned TECO into something usable by mere mortals. If
all you wanted was an editor that worked the same way as PDP-10 EMACS, it
would have been easy to create: several people have (MicroEMACS, etc). It's
the fact that GNU EMACS was intended as a haven for MIT LISP hackers adrift
in the bold new world of Unix that made it so huge for its time.
But the GNU EMACS is not a RMS invention...
GNU EMACS is based on the Gosling EMACS and this did already include the LISP
interpreter.
When Gosling started to work for Sun, he did no longer have the time to
maintain it and did hand it over to Unipress. RMS did take this code, added a
few small changed and sold it under the name GNU emacs.
Jörg
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