Re:Why GNU Emacs?
by lottin on Sunday February 14, 2016 @05:17PM
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What is true is that Vi and Emacs are deeply tied to the Unix tradition. Whether they are 'antiquated' or whether there are 'better' alternatives is a matter of opinion. Personally I haven't seen any other editor that comes close.
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Maybe GNU Emacs, because it was originally written for Unix. Emacs itself came from ITS/Teco. Lisp-based Emacs came from the MIT Lisp Machine (using Lisp Machine Lisp as implementation language) and Multics Emacs (using Maclisp as implementation language).