6 Jan
2019
6 Jan
'19
12:26 p.m.
On Jan 5, 2019, at 6:40 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
On Saturday, 5 January 2019 at 17:43:43 -0800, Chris Hanson wrote:
That’s not what I’m referring to, I’m referring to GNU emacs.
(Also, he didn’t write the original emacs. He took it over.)
On Jan 5, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
I don't think there's any serious doubt that rms wrote the original
Emacs, in TECO.
+1. RMS always talked big but the real work was done by other people.
GCC was Tiemann at Sun and then at Cygnus, groff was James Clark,
etc. I think RMS hacked on emacs but not much else.
Which I thought was originally derived from Unipress emacs
(Gosmacs), and was why old source code used to be hard to find. 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.
-- Chris