6 Jan
2019
6 Jan
'19
12:01 p.m.
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
<grog(a)lemis.com>:
On Saturday, 5 January 2019 at 17:43:43 -0800, Chris
Hanson wrote:
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. If I understand it correctly, though, he took
significant improvements, including screen redisplay, from Gosling
Emacs.
Greg
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+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.