On 11/2/2013 3:20 AM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
On 02/11/13 11:11, Ping wrote:
Nice.
How old is emacs btw?
from iPhone
Not the wildest. Maybe Wikipedia could tell you, and if the wiki in
your own language doesn't say, try the English one.
Best regards,
Tony.
*Emacs* / <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English>?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>i?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>m
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>æ
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>k
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>s
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>/
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English> and its derivatives
are a family of text editors <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor>
that are characterized by their extensibility
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensibility>. The manual for one variant
describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting,
real-time display editor."^[2]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#cite_note-2> Development began in
the mid-1970s and continues actively as of 2013. Emacs has over 2,000
built-in commands and allows the user to combine these commands into
macros <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro_%28computer_science%29> to
automate work. The use of Emacs Lisp
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs_Lisp>, a variant of the Lisp
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%29>
programming language, provides a deep extension capability.
The original EMACS was written in 1976 by Richard Stallman
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman> and Guy L. Steele, Jr.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_L._Steele,_Jr.> as a set of /Editor
MACroS/ for the TECO
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Editor_and_Corrector> editor.^[3]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#cite_note-3> ^[4]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#cite_note-4> ^[5]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#cite_note-5> ^[6]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#cite_note-MACSimizing_TECO-6> It was
inspired by the ideas of the TECO-macro editors TECMAC and TMACS.^[7]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#cite_note-7>
Emacs became, along with vi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi>, one of
the two main contenders in the traditional editor wars
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war> of Unix
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix> culture. The word "emacs" is often
pluralized as /emacsen/ ^[/importance?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INDISCRIMINATE>/] ,by analogy
with boxen <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boxen> and VAXen
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX>.^[8]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#cite_note-8>
The most popular, and most ported, version of Emacs is *GNU Emacs,*
which was created by Stallman for the GNU Project
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project>.^[9]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#cite_note-9> XEmacs
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEmacs> is a common variant that branched
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29> from GNU
Emacs in 1991. Both of the variants use Emacs Lisp and are for the most
part compatible with each other.
v/r,
Greg
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