28 Feb
2017
28 Feb
'17
12:51 a.m.
Really fascinating reading (the emacs history essay). I had more or less
gone through a similar thought process in my own editor experiments, such
as a failed attempt to provide full screen editing for email in
TheMajorBBS, it's a difficult and fascinating problem and the dicussion of
FNP char-at-a-time patches is quite revealing in regards to the limitations
(both physical and idealogical) that prevailed with early mainframes.
cheers, Nick
On Feb 28, 2017 3:05 AM, "Tony Finch" <dot(a)dotat.at> wrote:
Lars Brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote:
RMS credits Multics Emacs with the idea to use Lisp as the extension
language: [snip] https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html
There's a nice history / retrospective of Multics Emacs at
http://www.multicians.org/mepap.html
Tony.
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