From: Earl Kent <earl.kent@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Source and compiling instructions for old version of Emacs (< 19.x)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:18:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A735183.2050006@gmail.com> (raw)
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Hi,
I'm working on some research projects on the history of text editor
technologies and more generally the early days of the free software
movement. As part of that research I would like to compile, on a
contemporary Linux distribution, runnable, early versions of the code,
say circa `88. I've looked all over the Internet the only early version
of emacs I can find is of 18.59, which is already 1992.
Does anyone know of earlier versions and have
instructions/scripts/patches for compiling it for Linux? (Even early
versions of 19.x took a lot of hacking for me to get up and running and
I still can't 18.59 to run without seg-fault on startup.)
Editorial: the initial releases of the GNU system, written largely by
Stallman, stand as one of the great intellectual accomplishments of the
20th century, not just of hackerdom, but really across all human
endeavors. Not having compilable, runnable versions of them, or even
the source code, makes them in some sense lost works, even as their
derived works, current Emacs, and inspired works, all modern editors,
flourish. On aspect of my research is to set up a project to keep these
things runnable on latest versions of Linux with as little patching as
possible.
Thanks for any help ore pointers to others who have worked on this!
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next reply other threads:[~2009-07-31 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-31 20:18 Earl Kent [this message]
2009-07-31 20:55 ` Source and compiling instructions for old version of Emacs (< 19.x) Sven Joachim
2009-08-01 3:21 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-01 4:45 ` Earl Kent
2009-08-01 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-03 21:25 ` Stefan Monnier
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