[TUHS] Emacs (was: Isaacson v Unix)

[Larry McVoy]

This is a distraction, but didn't the BDS C guy take some of those
interfaces into his editor?

On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 06:01:44AM +0000, Donald ODona wrote:
> 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.   
> 
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> At 6 Jan 2019 02:51:32 +0000 (+00:00) from Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at 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 at mcvoy.com> 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
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