Re: Oldest Emacs alive

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

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Thanks for the pointers. I installed the first attached patch into the emacs-26 
branch. (Sorry about misspelling your name in the commit message; fixed in the 
second attached patch.)

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From f205928d1f93f4373d755ca91805a88e022ac414 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 08:25:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] * etc/HISTORY: Cite Brinkoff on early history.

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 etc/HISTORY | 7 ++++---
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diff --git a/etc/HISTORY b/etc/HISTORY
index ba86182..b239904 100644
--- a/etc/HISTORY
+++ b/etc/HISTORY
@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@ development is sketchy, the following text summarizes what is known.
 EMACS started out as a set of macros atop the TECO text editor, and
 was first operational in late 1976.  It was inspired by earlier work
 such as the E editor of Stanford, and was based on older TECO macro
-sets.  EMACS in turn inspired several similar editors.  See:
-Stallman RM. EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Self-Documenting
-Display Editor.  AI Memo 519a, MIT, 1981-03-26
+sets.  See: Stallman RM. EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable
+Self-Documenting Display Editor.  AI Memo 519a, MIT, 1981-03-26
 <http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5736/AIM-519A.pdf>.
+EMACS in turn inspired several similar editors.  For a summary of
+this history, see <https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history>.
 
 In 1984, work began on GNU Emacs, a fresh implementation designed to
 run on GNU and GNU-like systems, with a full-featured Lisp at its
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From fc5cae731cede7e00f3f2d40d6577537f872d439 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 08:36:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ; Fix ChangeLog typo.

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index c05303c..a0a4794 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.3
+++ b/ChangeLog.3
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 2018-07-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
-	* etc/HISTORY: Cite Brinkoff on early history.
+	* etc/HISTORY: Cite Brinkhoff on early history.
 
 2018-07-01  Martin Rudalics  <rudalics@gmx.at>
 
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