Re:Emacs Is Not Just an Editor
by fsckboy on Sunday March 12, 2023 @09:03PM
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> [emacs] was designed as an editor with macros (thus the name)
no, that's not true.
emacs was written in the language of another editor, teco, and teco had the macros. So, emacs was written as a new editor written on top of the old editor teco. At that time, emacs was a set of "teco edit macros"
because the authors of emacs were teco users, and macros were so useful to the teco user, yes, a macro facility was also added to emacs for the emacs users, but emacs itself was not intially those macros, it was teco macros.
Re:Emacs Is Not Just an Editor
by lispm on Monday March 13, 2023 @05:32AM
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The second Emacs was written for the Lisp Machine by Daniel Weinreb. There the whole editor was written and extended in the same language (Lisp Machine Lisp) in the same environment. There it did not have a separate macro language.
no, that's not true.
emacs was written in the language of another editor, teco, and teco had the macros. So, emacs was written as a new editor written on top of the old editor teco. At that time, emacs was a set of "teco edit macros"
because the authors of emacs were teco users, and macros were so useful to the teco user, yes, a macro facility was also added to emacs for the emacs users, but emacs itself was not intially those macros, it was teco macros.