Emacs was released in 1985. That's 36 years ago. Half of that is 18. What am I missing?

> Initial release 1976; 45 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs

I think GNU Emacs was released in 1985, but Emacs existed before that. Similar to vim and vi relationship.

In fact, Emacs was first implemented as a plugin (a set of macros in the language of the time) for a now forgotten editor called Teco, which was one of the first, if not the first, programmable editor ever.

That's the "macs" in Emacs: Editing MACroS.

I was using Emacs in 1982, and it had been around for several years before that.

I love it when old-timers weigh in on HN comments.

What do you use these days?

Started with Gosmacs. Working in the CMU graduate terminal room with the man himself. I was just a freshman undergraduate, but a graduating student gifted a coveted X1 key to me. Mostly coveted due to the coke machine.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt

What a wonderfully entertaining read that was :)

Sounds like the culture in the CMU CS department was pretty great.

Thank you for sharing this historical gem with us.

not OP, but Emacs ofc [1]

[1] why on earth would they go through the traumatic change of reprogramming their muscle memory after so many years? it would be like a wizard that voluntarily gives their power away. like a father sacrificing his own child.

Also, conversely whom Emacs is attracting these days. One interesting data point i came across is this philosophy dude protesilaos.com/ . Amazing youtube videos on Emacs and he has unique view from the point of philosopher for Emacs.

Emacs of course ;)

Gosh, "old timer" :(

Apologies for my poor choice of wording!

Here in South Africa we typically use "old-timer" to refer to someone who is very experienced.

My comment was expressed with the utmost respect I assure you :)

I didn't take it as a derogatory label. My emoji was just my own self reflection on the years gone by.

edlin

Why fix what ain't broke? /s

GNU Emacs was released in 1985. Other variants of Emacs date back to the 70s.

Apparently, the downvote restriction to wise users doesn't prevent some of them from being trigger happy. Maybe the release date stated above is wrong but I'm shocked to see this kind of comment downvoted.

are we off by one ?