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It is remarkable how many things listed in this manual will still work, more than 40 years on, in modern emacs. It is probably not surprising that the basic te
by mike-the-mikado 4y ago
It is remarkable how many things listed in this manual will still work, more than 40 years on, in modern emacs. It is probably not surprising that the basic text navigation is unchanged, but it had incremental search (on C-S/C-R). Many computer users might have imagined that this was a recent invention.
The M-S keybinding, to centre a paragraph has only be recycled in recent versions of emacs.
And the tags tables (with the visit-tags-table function and M-.) is also there, though I note that language support, particularly for languages that had not been invented, has been widened in recent years.
- kragen 4y ago> it had incremental search (on C-S/C-R). Many computer users might have imagined that this was a recent invention. Incremental search is a recent invention; it was invented for Emacs in the late 01970s, making it a decade more recent than things like hypertext, parser generators, graphical user interfaces, CAD, garbage collection, computer video games, packet-switched networks, and filesystems, and two decades more recent than things like high-level languages, compilers, operating systems, hash tables, and SIMD instructions. I'm curious whether vi copied tags tables from Emacs or vice versa; ctags already existed in 2.9BSD in 01979.