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> why would both of these editors be developed in such a way that they are downright inconvenient to use on the hardware on which they most frequently ran? As
by Isamu 7y ago
> why would both of these editors be developed in such a way that they are downright inconvenient to use on the hardware on which they most frequently ran?
As other comments note, they were developed on earlier models or non-Dec terminals.
Also Emacs was not developed on Unix. The first Unix Emacs was created by James Gosling of Java fame.
- aap_ 7y agoCertainly not. The first emacs was created for the TECO editor on ITS by various people. It was further developed and maintained by RMS. Gosling's emacs came a few years later.
- invsblduck 7y agoThen there's this debacle I've never spent enough time getting to the bottom of... https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dhrcxw/james_gosling_on_how_richard_stallman_stole_his/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dhrcxw/james_g...
- bbanyc 7y agohttps://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history has the details... there's some Gosling code (notably display.c with the skull-and-bones warning) in Emacs 13, but none that I can find in 15 and later.