<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I had ported Gosling Emacs to Fortune System in 1981 or 82. It was painfully slow. I vaguely remember that was due to bitfields use, for which our C compiler (pcc based IIRC) did not generate good code. I gave up at that point as it was a side project & vi was more than good enough. Earlier I had used TECO (logged in to ITS from an IMP @ USC) but not emacs.<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 3, 2023, at 5:04 PM, Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">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.<br>
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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?<br>
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Will<br>
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