6 Jan
2019
6 Jan
'19
8:50 a.m.
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
Also correct. I found a copy of GNU Emacs 13.8 which I believe is the
first version to be distributed. It has the Gosling display code.
I don't think there's any serious doubt that
rms wrote the original
Emacs, in TECO.
That's an oversimplification. RMS may have done most of the work, but
he was not the first. Here's some interesting reading from 1978:
https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/eak/emacs.lore
Chris Hanson wrote:
(Also, he didn’t write the original emacs. He took it
over.)
That's right.
RMS is often credited with the ^R real-time display feature, but that
too originated earlier by Mikkelsen.
If I
understand it correctly, though, he took significant
improvements, including screen redisplay, from Gosling Emacs.
GNU emacs is not a descendant of the TECO package. What I’m referring
to is that GNU emacs started as a set of hacks on Gosmacs, and the
Gosmacs code had to be excised because it wasn’t actually something
FSF could redistribute as their own.