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The Origins of Emacs, uncovered. - jkl - 23-07-2024

Interesting read:
https://onlisp.co.uk/On-the-Origin-of-Emacs-in-1976.html


RE: The Origins of Emacs, uncovered. - Nixdude - 15-10-2024

Emacs originated in the 1970s as a set of "Editor MACroS" (hence the name Emacs) created by Richard Stallman and Guy L. Steele Jr. at MIT. It began as an extension of the TECO (Text Editor and Corrector) editor. Cmiiw