Emacs editors - Revision history

Larsbrinkhoff: Link to Meta key.

2025-11-19T07:42:11Z

Link to Meta key.

Jnc: Avoid redir

2025-04-12T17:56:37Z

Avoid redir

Jnc: /* External links */ +Montgomery Emacs manual

2023-08-04T01:22:55Z

‎External links: +Montgomery Emacs manual

Jnc: /* External links */ +Bernie's Multics Emacs paper

2022-11-03T20:10:51Z

‎External links: +Bernie's Multics Emacs paper

Jnc: turn into link

2022-09-19T12:32:56Z

turn into link

Jnc: /* External links */ + Introduction to the EMACS Editor; EMACS Manual for ITS Users

2022-03-29T20:07:14Z

‎External links: + Introduction to the EMACS Editor; EMACS Manual for ITS Users

Jnc: /* External links */ +Montgomery Emacs History

2021-09-13T21:38:03Z

‎External links: +Montgomery Emacs History

Jnc: typos; point out names for non-German speakers

2021-08-25T06:42:12Z

typos; point out names for non-German speakers

Larsbrinkhoff: Link to EINE.

2021-08-25T06:06:26Z

Link to EINE.

Larsbrinkhoff at 15:02, 19 March 2021

2021-03-19T15:02:14Z

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 The '''Emacs editors''' are a group of extensible [[screen editor]] [[text editor]]s, united in having a common [[user interface]]. Multiple '[[window]]s' (actually, divisions of the main window) are standard, as are multiple buffers.
-It is generally not 'moded'; characters typed as input are immediately inserted into the current buffer, or acted upon as a command. Most commands are not on regular printing keys, but 'Control' and 'Meta' keys (the former part of standard [[ASCII]], the latter ASCII codes with the high bit in the byte set). Less-often used commands are invoked by name, after typing an 'execute named command' command key.
+It is generally not 'moded'; characters typed as input are immediately inserted into the current buffer, or acted upon as a command. Most commands are not on regular printing keys, but 'Control' and '[[Meta key|Meta]]' keys (the former part of standard [[ASCII]], the latter ASCII codes with the high bit in the byte set). Less-often used commands are invoked by name, after typing an 'execute named command' command key.
 The first, '''EMACS''', one of the first screen editors, was implemented in [[TECO]] [[macro]]s on the [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]] [[operating system]] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]. Since TECO itself was written in [[assembly language]] for the [[PDP-10]], it was fairly quickly moved to [[TENEX]] and [[TOPS-20]].

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 It is generally not 'moded'; characters typed as input are immediately inserted into the current buffer, or acted upon as a command. Most commands are not on regular printing keys, but 'Control' and 'Meta' keys (the former part of standard [[ASCII]], the latter ASCII codes with the high bit in the byte set). Less-often used commands are invoked by name, after typing an 'execute named command' command key.
-The first, '''EMACS''', one of the first screen editors, was implemented in [[TECO]] [[macro]]s on the [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]] [[operating system]] at [[MIT]]. Since TECO itself was written in [[assembly language]] for the [[PDP-10]], it was fairly quickly moved to [[TENEX]] and [[TOPS-20]].
+The first, '''EMACS''', one of the first screen editors, was implemented in [[TECO]] [[macro]]s on the [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]] [[operating system]] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]. Since TECO itself was written in [[assembly language]] for the [[PDP-10]], it was fairly quickly moved to [[TENEX]] and [[TOPS-20]].
-In addition, MIT alumni who moved elsewhere wanted Emacs-like screen editor editing capabilities on the systems at their new locations, which generated a number of new implementations, including 'Montgomery EMACS' for [[PDP-11]] [[UNIX]] machines, and 'Gosling's Emacs' for [[VAX]] [[Unix]]. This spread the usage of Emacs even further; and as people at those facilities saw it, things snow-balled.
+In addition, MIT alumni who moved elsewhere wanted Emacs-like screen editor editing capabilities on the systems at their new locations, which generated a number of new implementations, including 'Montgomery EMACS' for [[PDP-11]] [[UNIX]] machines, and 'Gosling's Emacs' for [[VAX]] UNIX. This spread the usage of Emacs even further; and as people at those facilities saw it, things snow-balled.
-A commercial version called '[[Epsilon]]', originally for [[MS-DOS]], later [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], was produced early on; it is still sold and supported. [[SINE]] was created for the [[MagicSix]] operating system.  A version was done in [[LISP]] for [[Multics]] by [[Bernie Greenberg]]. The [[Symbolics]] [[LISP machine]] had several Emacs clones, including '[[EINE]]' ('EINE Is Not EMACS') and 'ZWEI' ('ZWEI Was Eine Initially') - the two names are German for 'one' and 'two'.
+ [[SINE]] was created for the [[MagicSix]] operating system.  A version was done in [[LISP]] for [[Multics]] by [[Bernie Greenberg]]. The [[Symbolics]] [[LISP machine]] had several Emacs clones, including '[[EINE]]' ('EINE Is Not EMACS') and 'ZWEI' ('ZWEI Was Eine Initially') - the two names are German for 'one' and 'two'.
-SCAME ran on Unix V7 and BSD.  MINCE ran on CP/M.
+A commercial version called '[[Epsilon]]', originally for [[MS-DOS]], later [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], was produced early on; it is still sold and supported. SCAME ran on Unix V7 and BSD.  MINCE ran on CP/M.
 [[Richard Stallman]], who had done much of the first EMACS, did a version for the [[GNU]] project, also in LISP, which has proved immensely popular, and is now used very widely.

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 * [https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6329 EMACS Manual for ITS Users] - the original EMACS
 * [https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/blob/sources/docs/Montgomery%20Emacs%20History.txt Montgomery Emacs History]
 * [https://multicians.org/mepap.html Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation]
 [[Category: Editors]]

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 * [https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6329 EMACS Manual for ITS Users] - the original EMACS
 * [https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/blob/sources/docs/Montgomery%20Emacs%20History.txt Montgomery Emacs History]
 [[Category: Editors]]

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 In addition, MIT alumni who moved elsewhere wanted Emacs-like screen editor editing capabilities on the systems at their new locations, which generated a number of new implementations, including 'Montgomery EMACS' for [[PDP-11]] [[UNIX]] machines, and 'Gosling's Emacs' for [[VAX]] [[Unix]]. This spread the usage of Emacs even further; and as people at those facilities saw it, things snow-balled.
-A commercial version called 'Epsilon', originally for [[MS-DOS]], later [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], was produced early on; it is still sold and supported. [[SINE]] was created for the [[MagicSix]] operating system.  A version was done in [[LISP]] for [[Multics]] by [[Bernie Greenberg]]. The [[Symbolics]] [[LISP machine]] had several Emacs clones, including '[[EINE]]' ('EINE Is Not EMACS') and 'ZWEI' ('ZWEI Was Eine Initially') - the two names are German for 'one' and 'two'.
+A commercial version called '[[Epsilon]]', originally for [[MS-DOS]], later [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], was produced early on; it is still sold and supported. [[SINE]] was created for the [[MagicSix]] operating system.  A version was done in [[LISP]] for [[Multics]] by [[Bernie Greenberg]]. The [[Symbolics]] [[LISP machine]] had several Emacs clones, including '[[EINE]]' ('EINE Is Not EMACS') and 'ZWEI' ('ZWEI Was Eine Initially') - the two names are German for 'one' and 'two'.
 SCAME ran on Unix V7 and BSD.  MINCE ran on CP/M.

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	[[Richard Stallman]], who had done much of the first EMACS, did a version for the [[GNU]] project, also in LISP, which has proved immensely popular, and is now used very widely.		[[Richard Stallman]], who had done much of the first EMACS, did a version for the [[GNU]] project, also in LISP, which has proved immensely popular, and is now used very widely.
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		+	==External links==
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		+	* [https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/blob/sources/docs/Montgomery%20Emacs%20History.txt Montgomery Emacs History]

	[[Category: Editors]]		[[Category: Editors]]