4 Aug
2023
4 Aug
'23
8:18 a.m.
I had ported Gosling Emacs to Fortune System in 1981 or 82. It was painfully slow. I
vaguely remember that was due to bitfields use, for which our C compiler (pcc based IIRC)
did not generate good code. I gave up at that point as it was a side project & vi was
more than good enough. Earlier I had used TECO (logged in to ITS from an IMP @ USC) but
not emacs.
On Aug 3, 2023, at 5:04 PM, Will Senn
<will.senn(a)gmail.com> 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