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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: GNU Emacs raison d'etre - 1981-ish version
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 09:45:11 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5cae5074-8b58-4562-9237-f5a2011b0da5@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADs++6g=wDJkKC_w2RUs49izFXD+uas0VhEx7dJLsHaiyiXhQg@mail.gmail.com>

> this is so different from the raisons d'être for Emacs that are being
> discussed in the other thread that I felt that it would be better to
> create a new thread to discuss it...
> 
> This is a section from rms's "EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable
> Display Editor", published in 1981 -
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-
> paper.html*SEC29__;Iw!!GqivPVa7Brio!M-U6Wbp7ap79xOWTYQLSiCWp_QLsdmvU-
> rj-VZZ2gQwdJVxybVBOv-5WDb6V7w-R$ >:

A worthwhile addition to the discussion.  Thx.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-14 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-14  6:24 GNU Emacs raison d'etre - 1981-ish version Eduardo Ochs
2020-05-14 16:45 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-05-14 21:26 ` excalamus--- via Emacs development discussions.
2020-05-15  8:55   ` Robert Pluim
2020-05-15 10:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16  4:19       ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-18 15:27         ` Robert Pluim
2020-05-19  3:54           ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-19  4:39             ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-19  4:51               ` andres.ramirez
2020-05-21  3:42                 ` Versions of Emacs Manuals on web Richard Stallman
2020-05-21  5:22                   ` andrés ramírez
2020-05-21  8:02                   ` Joost Kremers
2020-05-21 15:20                     ` Drew Adams
2020-05-21 15:47                       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-21 16:13                         ` Drew Adams
2020-05-21  3:42               ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-21 13:19                 ` Eli Zaretskii

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