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Emacs 22 on April 23

Emacs 22 on April 23

Posted Apr 10, 2007 20:14 UTC (Tue) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
In reply to: Emacs 22 on April 23 by tnoo
Parent article: Emacs 22 on April 23

That might hold true for the original vi, and some people do still use that, but most vi users now use one of the improved variants of vi, such as vim. One of the two main emacs editors in common use (GNU Emacs) comes from the original emacs. (I don't know whether GNU Emacs or XEmacs has more users.)


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Emacs 22 on April 23

Posted Apr 10, 2007 20:50 UTC (Tue) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link]

Modern Emacs might conceptually come from the old Emacs (due to the inventor being Richard Stallman) but there was no continuity in the code (the current GNU Emacs was a rewrite by RMS in C)

Emacs 22 on April 23

Posted Apr 10, 2007 22:51 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

XEmacs is just a fork of GNU Emacs, that happened back in the version 18 days. It has plenty of RMS's code in it.

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