On Thursday, March 16, 2017 09:47:31 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Your hunch isn't completely wrong. From Emac's wikipedia page: > > The original EMACS was written in 1976 by David A. Moon and > Guy L. Steele, Jr. as a set of Editor MACroS for the TECO > editor. It was inspired by the ideas of the TECO-macro editors > TECMAC and TMACS. > > The most popular, and most ported, version of Emacs is GNU Emacs, > which was created by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project. > XEmacs is a variant that branched from GNU Emacs in 1991. Both > GNU Emacs and XEmacs use Emacs Lisp and are for the most part > compatible with each other.
Interesting! > Of course, when I say affectionately "Emacs" here, I'm thinking of > GNU Emacs. And it has evolved... a bit since then. > > (And, BTW. you could do much worse than having Stefan around here ;-) > > Try it. You'll be overwhelmed. But you'll like it, promised. Must be my day to write to lists... Well, I did, and I didn't ;-) That was on the order of 15 years ago. Problems that I can remember centered around fonts, font sizes, readability, and compatibility with my past experiences (which, by that time in my life, were mostly Dos / Window editors--in particular, I loved (I think the name was qedit--if there is a qedit now on Linux, I think it is something different than I remember). And, indeed, I might be misremembering the name. It was a shareware editor, and one of the few shareware programs I kept using (and paid for).