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From: | Steve Grout |
Subject: | Re: [h-e-w] Re: help-emacs-windows Digest, Vol 68, Issue 7 |
Date: | Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:59:59 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) |
OK, you got me. Thats a great history documenting Emacs! (This may bore you but) I do indeed remember the TECO work, and remember trying to get it for use but was not successful. From 1969 to 1976, I was at Honeywell(formerly GE) Large Systems in Phoenix working on CAD for their design groups and was constantly editing both large datasets and software codes using line editors and macros. On a typical day I read/edited 10K-100K+ lines. We were also developing schematic screen editors before the hardware was really there for that, and so I was always on the lookout for an editor to use directly on the data and software. For awhile in the late 70's I was on microprocessor-based hardware with a weak 'terminal' and editing capabilitys, so my 'excuse' is I wasn't on DEC/Burroughs/etc hardware until ~1980, started running across the key work/articles mentioned in your nice emacs history... and finally pulling in and loading emacs versions locally. When I am not able to use emacs directly on my XP, I have emacs key bindings for Word (wordperfect before that), though am still putting that together for Publisher. You may wish to add to the Emacs history that, when during the mid-80's, LISP began to be used for a wide number of serious large applications, my direct observation was it was much more that the (good) coders were already using Emacs and its emacsLISP, than that LISP hardware was available. As LISP hardware slipped away, emacs continued to be used as codes/software-archictecture evolved/migrated to C++ and Java. So my apologies. I am very greatful for both the History lesson...and all the work on emacs that had gone on before I personally ran into it and it became my primary editor. --Steve Grout ------------------- Lennart Borgman wrote:
See http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/EmacsHistory On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Steve Grout <address@hidden> wrote:Hey folks - There was no emacs before about 1980 when 'RMS' (Richard Stallman) first put the code together at MIT. Help me with this if I'm wrong. I had been looking for a WYSIWYG screen editor since starting to work on electronics circuit analysis codes in 1965. Before running into emacs, I was using 'NED' I think. --Steve Grout - DAD & Verification Consultant (i.e., I'm on SSA but still looking for work! :-) ----------------------- address@hidden wrote:Send help-emacs-windows mailing list submissions to address@hidden To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to address@hidden You can reach the person managing the list at address@hidden When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of help-emacs-windows digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Clipping for Today (Sarir Khamsi) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:14:18 -0700 From: Sarir Khamsi <address@hidden> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Clipping for Today To: address@hidden Cc: address@hidden Message-ID: <address@hidden> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii address@hidden writes:My maternal grandmother gave me a NYT clipping in 1978, and it is still on my wall. It is appropriate for today:[...]"Cora didn't merely board -- she made an entrance. She paid her fare, even the coins tinkled gaily. Then the startled passengers began to call out, 'Is that you, Cora -- really you?' The driver pulled the bus to the curb, stopped and faced her, 'What's "hoppen", Cora?' "'Nothing is "hoppen"', she said, as though proclaiming an amnesty. "'Today I started using Emacs.'"^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Another happy Emacs user. :-) ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ help-emacs-windows mailing list address@hidden http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows End of help-emacs-windows Digest, Vol 68, Issue 7 *************************************************
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