Re: [TUHS] Emacs (was: Isaacson v Unix)

teco, a very early (even earlier than qed/ed) character based editor, rather a stream editor in unix terms, was written by the student dan murphy for the pdp-1 in around 1964. In the 70ths two teco macro collections were popular in MIT's AI lab: tmacs&temacs, written by gus steele et al., leaving both packages unmaintained. rms took over maintenance, consolidating and improving them. That's all. He neither written teco nor the teco macro packages. At 6 Jan 2019 02:51:32 +0000 (+00:00) from Greg 'groggy' Lehey &lt;grog(a)lemis.com&gt;: > On Saturday, 5 January 2019 at 17:43:43 -0800, Chris Hanson wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Larry McVoy &lt;lm(a)mcvoy.com&gt; wrote: > >> > >> +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. > > I don't think there's any serious doubt that rms wrote the original > Emacs, in TECO. If I understand it correctly, though, he took > significant improvements, including screen redisplay, from Gosling > Emacs. > > 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 <a target="_blank" href="http://lemis.com/broken-MUA">http://lemis.com/broken-MUA…