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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: What is Emacs written in?
Message-ID: <3114@enea.se>
Date: 31 Mar 91 21:20:41 GMT
References: <1991Mar26.165516.13035@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden
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Also sprach Douglas E. Quale (quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu):
>Emacs is written in elisp.

I did 
   cat *.c *.h | wc
on /usr/gnu/src/emacs/src and found almost 70.000 lines. If it's
not Emacs, what is it? TPU? :-)

cat *.el | wc on /usr/gnu/src/emacs/lisp revealed 55.000 lines.
However, are any of these 55.000 lines are linked into /usr/gnu/
bin/emacs? How many are really kernel-emacs, and how many are
just the editing interface, and special-packages like electric-c?
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se