Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!vsi1!wyse!mips!wilkes From: wilkes@mips.COM (John Wilkes) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: GNU Elisp -- Summary Message-ID: <10788@electron.mips.COM> Date: 6 Jan 89 19:47:04 GMT References: <2211@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <66721@ti-csl.CSNET> <10782@wright.mips.COM> Reply-To: wilkes@mips.COM (John Wilkes) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 15 [GNU emacs and Gosling emacs...] I heard somewhere that RMS started out with Gosling's PD emacs. Later, when Gosling's version became a commercial product, all of the Goscode was exorcised from the GNU version. This is probably an urban myth. -wilkes "There is no Editor but EMACS, and TECO is its Prophet." "I don't care what they say, 36 bits is here to stay." "It's a new feature? Gee, TOPS-20 did that 10 years ago." "etc., etc., etc." -- -- work: {decwrl ames pyramid prls}!mips!wilkes -OR- wilkes@mips.com