Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!shelby!msi.umn.edu!umeecs!zip!spencer From: spencer@eecs.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Who invented `dabbrev-expand'? Message-ID: Date: 18 Feb 91 17:34:44 GMT References: <1123@anprda.atson.asahi-np.co.jp> <62566@bbn.BBN.COM> <1127@anprda.atson.asahi-np.co.jp> Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: akira@atson.asahi-np.co.jp's message of 8 Feb 91 11:45:44 GMT In article <1127@anprda.atson.asahi-np.co.jp> akira@atson.asahi-np.co.jp (Akira Takiguchi) writes: > I was ashamed to find the documentation in dabbrev.el (;_;). It was > written in teco by Don Morrison for Twenex Emacs, based upon the idea by > Bob Keller (Keller@Utah-20). No mention about the date written (I wish I > had access to some twenex machine with tecomacs :-), but it seems like a > pretty aged stuff. Don was at Utah until 1981 or 82. I remember him writing the original dabbrevs, probably about 1980, but I can't be sure. We got our 20 in early 1978, but I don't think we ran Emacs on it for a while -- I know I used TV for at least a year. The 20 is long gone now, so it's not even possible to go back and look. I think Russ Fish did the port to Gosling emacs (back when jag was still at CMU, and the editor was free); I probably hacked on it some (there was very little of that editor that didn't feel my fingers at one time or another). -- =Spencer W. Thomas EECS Dept, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 spencer@eecs.umich.edu 313-936-2616 (8-6 E[SD]T M-F)