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.
next prev parent 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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