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> like home.  The usual key bindings do what you expect them to, there's
> paren matching, you can split windows with `C-x 2' and there's even
> Dired.  ...Next, all you need is to discover that they both have Lisps=20

the macro language of the original ITS/RMS emacs was TECO.=20
Bernie Greenberg written on Multics an MacLisp based "emacs
derived" editor, soon followed by Gosling's Moclisp based UNIX text=20
editor. Gosling's emacs became the ultimative code base of RMS's=20
GNU/emacs. Soon later RMS was forced to to rewrite the code base=20
out of legal considerations.

Therefore you are talking about rather recent improvements and=20
not about the original ITS emacs. The sources of ITS emacs are=20
downloadable in the internet, as well as a lot of comments. Reading
that making clear that GNU/emacs is a different program.