Post AZ04hbAvpIZd4raHBY by PaniczGodek@functional.cafe
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(DIR) Post #AZ01j0fMEpUcYwnT96 by PaniczGodek@functional.cafe
2023-08-22T19:14:28Z
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Hey @larsbrinkhoff I have a question about #EmacsWikipedia credits Guy Steele and David Moon as the original authors of TECO Emacs, but in Stallman's biography there's a quote from Steele that he only did like 0.0001% of work and the rest was done by Stallman.My first question is: what was the distinctive feature of Emacs? Was it the documentation system? I also read that Steele's work was about gathering and documenting various TECO extensions written by MIT hackers. Is there some more specific information available somewhere?
(DIR) Post #AZ01j1ZirGZzNlAU08 by galdor@emacs.ch
2023-08-22T20:05:36Z
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@PaniczGodek @larsbrinkhoff On the subject, you may want to read this article: https://web.archive.org/web/20110719154038/http://danweinreb.org/blog/rebuttal-to-stallmans-story-about-the-formation-of-symbolics-and-lmi.It matches what I've read in other places, both for the Symbolics part and the Emacs part.
(DIR) Post #AZ04hbAvpIZd4raHBY by PaniczGodek@functional.cafe
2023-08-22T20:38:58Z
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@galdor @larsbrinkhoff thanks!
(DIR) Post #AZ0rIt5F0DZb8JlizI by larsbrinkhoff@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-23T05:43:31Z
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@galdor @PaniczGodek Right, the exact events and who did what, is a matter of (somewhat vague) recollections. I think everyone agrees Stallman did most of the development and maintenance once Emacs got off the ground.
(DIR) Post #AZ1DXy6go27O332hXM by mapcar@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-23T09:52:35Z
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@galdor @PaniczGodek @larsbrinkhoff Looking at the list of Symbolics people at the bottom of the article, makes me very envious, it must have been so cool to work there.