[TUHS] Emacs (was: Isaacson v Unix)

[Chris Hanson]

On Jan 5, 2019, at 6:40 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

That’s not what I’m referring to, I’m referring to GNU emacs.

(Also, he didn’t write the original emacs. He took it over.)

> If I understand it correctly, though, he took
> significant improvements, including screen redisplay, from Gosling
> Emacs.

GNU emacs is not a descendant of the TECO package. What I’m referring to is that GNU emacs started as a set of hacks on Gosmacs, and the Gosmacs code had to be excised because it wasn’t actually something FSF could redistribute as their own.

 -- Chris