From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 23:15:26 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <874n8mgph4.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <6a370ecf-5ddc-4e5b-8553-189949a495fe@googlegroups.com> <7557ed60-66e4-4ab2-9cd6-9b1b2d934ae1@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381612817 9897 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2013 21:20:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 21:20:17 +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 23:20:20 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 1VV6bj-0006hk-Ro for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 23:20:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59391 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VV6bj-0007wo-8I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:20:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:GKO53NdA1TnnYBCpxM/PWx3q29Y= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201701 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:93970 Archived-At: Kai Grossjohann writes: > I believe that GNU Emacs was never rewritten. It was > incrementally refactored, 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 feat! "A complete rewrite..." Wouldn't that be a total disaster? Why would you do that? Because of hardware changes? Portability? Please explain :) -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573