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Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 29, 2020 14:57 UTC (Tue) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545)
In reply to: Toward a "modern" Emacs by Sesse
Parent article: Toward a "modern" Emacs

From my memory, didn't the ctrl-x ctrl-v actions enter muscle memory through the wordstar editors which started in 1979? Whereas EMACS initial release was in 1976 (with heritage from TECO)? Not so far apart.

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Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 29, 2020 15:59 UTC (Tue) by jem (subscriber, #24231) [Link] (1 responses)

No, Ctrl-x was down in WordStar. Cursor movement keys were in a diamond pattern: Ctrl-e/s/d/x for up, down, right and down, respectively.

Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 29, 2020 17:53 UTC (Tue) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545) [Link]

Ah thanks! "IIRC" is so often flawed ;-)