From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7557ed60-66e4-4ab2-9cd6-9b1b2d934ae1@googlegroups.com> References: <6a370ecf-5ddc-4e5b-8553-189949a495fe@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381611917 985 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2013 21:05:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 21:05:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 12 23:05:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VV6NC-00077c-RQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 23:05:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59349 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VV6NC-0004aD-8C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:05:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.160.36 with SMTP id xh4mr10205388pab.11.1381611682410; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:01:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.87.71 with SMTP id v7mr237041igz.11.1381611682251; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!z6no51932879pbz.1!news-out.google.com!9ni33808qaf.0!nntp.google.com!i2no8966335qav.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=188.100.165.77; posting-account=I9e64woAAAAVzkxsw3EYKwEDU5Qp_aCe Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 188.100.165.77 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 21:01:22 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201699 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93968 Archived-At: On Saturday, October 12, 2013 5:30:16 PM UTC+2, Drew Adams wrote: > > > trust Emacs to be active and improving by 2018? >=20 > > Emacs was written in 1985, so it will be 30 years old soon. I > > think it can go on another 30 years :-) >=20 >=20 >=20 > It's really more like 40 years that people have been using Emacs. > GNU Emacs will be 30 in two more years (soon, but not that soon). Yes, yes. Not good. I was thinking of GNU Emacs but didn't say it. I believe that GNU Emacs was never rewritten. It was incrementally refacto= red, and it's quite possible that every line of code has changed since the = original version was published in 1985, but what I mean here is that as far= as I know there was never a complete rewrite of the whole thing. I find that to be very impressive, and hence I mentioned 1985 as the date. Does anyone know whether this is true? It would be quite the impressive fe= at! Kai