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Nicely written summary! This paper was written by Richard Stallman in 1981 and delivered in the ACM Conference on Text Processing which touches on all of your
by rgrau 6y ago
Nicely written summary!
This paper was written by Richard Stallman in 1981 and delivered in the ACM Conference on Text Processing which touches on all of your points and a few more: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html
- dan-robertson 6y agoIt doesn’t mention some of the newer things like hooks. I love how much emphasis there is on efficiently updating the display. That mostly isn’t a problem these days (indeed it’s somewhat likely that emacs is slowed down by trying to compute efficient updates instead of just sending out the updates as soon as possible)
- dan-robertson 6y agoBy hooks I meant advice