tom jennings (@[email protected])

Wow. Is/was this common knowledge? Is it correct? "Well, there was the original Emacs - Editing MACroS? - a set of TECO macros running on the version of TECO implemented under ITS on the DEC machine at the MIT AI labs. " (I think that machine was a DEC-10 or DEC-20, but could be wrong.) Stallman created EMACS by merging and regularizing several macro packages already in use. It became the default editor at the labs, and Stallman commented later that he realized how much it had become the standard when he no longer recalled how to perform the operations in raw TECO. Stallman's macros relied on the Control-R mode in ITS TECO which permitted interactive use. I don't believe that was present in standard TECO off a DECUS tape. There was a Video TECO package not related to Emacs that provided screen editing features on a VT52 or VT100. " -- https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Mince