[TUHS] On computerese

Lars Brinkhoff lars at nocrew.org
Tue Oct 1 14:31:12 AEST 2024


Dan Halbert wrote:
> I had used Emacs at MIT as an undergraduate.  Bill would sometimes ask
> me, "how do they do that in Emacs", or ITS, and then riff on a feature
> and put it into vi or whatever.  Whether I suggested an "apropos" Unix
> command or someone wanted something like that, or I said, "sounds like
> 'apropos' in Emacs", I don't remember.

I'm curious if you remember any other features that Bill might have
picked up from Emacs or ITS?  From you or anyone else.

Another interesting example would be job control that was done by Jim
Kulp.


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