[TUHS] emacs
Will Senn
will.senn at gmail.com
Fri Aug 4 11:59:45 AEST 2023
Nice. the Rainbow was my first working PC. I loved it. It had a math
coprocessor (that I upgraded), z80 and 8088, with 1MB ram (that I
upgraded it to, from 128k), ran Autocad! MSDOS 3.10b, CP/M and it was
the machine I used with a 300baud modem to download the pre 1.0
slackware - kermit/xmodem through a VMS gateway to the internet -
1993/1994. I didn't have emacs though! I think I remember Ultrix or
something like that, but I didn't run it.
On 8/3/23 19:32, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2023, 6:19 PM Adam Thornton <athornton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There are certainly teco implementations for Unix, although I
> don't know if it was ever anyone's default editor aInywhere.
> Indeed, there are multiple implementations: I switched from a C
> teco implementation to pyteco in the Rubin Science Platform
> JupyterLab implementation (its utility is of course dubious, but
> this is part of both my nefarious plan to make Jupyter not merely
> mean "Julia, Python, and R", but to use that "e" -- and
> reassociate it with the "t" -- by making it mean "Julia, Python,
> Teco, and R", and also to include an easter egg for a fellow
> project member who is a teco fan).
>
> The first Emacs I used was GNU emacs at already version...16 or
> something? In 1989, on ... I don't remember what the main system
> I used at the UT Austin Chaos Lab was, actually; we had an SGI
> Iris, but that wasn't the machine I did my editing on. But by
> 1989 it was certainly well-available and established.
>
>
> We used some stripped down emacs in 1985 on the vax 11/750 running
> 4.2bsd. I built micro emacs for my DEC Rainbow under MS-DOS in the
> same time period...
>
> Warner
>
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 5:04 PM Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As a longtime user and lover of ed/ex/vi, I don't know much
> about emacs, but lately I've been using it more (as it seems
> like any self-respecting lisper, has to at least have a
> passing acquaintance with it). I recently went off and got
> MACLISP running in ITS. As part of that exploration, I used
> EMACS, but not just any old emacs, emacs in it's first
> incarnation as a set of TECO macros. To me, it just seemed
> like EMACS. I won't bore you with the details - imagine lots
> of control and escape sequences, many of which are the same
> today as then. This was late 70's stuff.
>
> My question for the group is - when did emacs arrive in unix
> and was it a full fledged text editor when it came or was it
> sitting on top of some other subssystem in unix? Was TECO ever
> on unix?
>
> Will
>
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