From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: I am confused: why Emacs keybindings in OS X?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 01:28:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vb6btwch.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52c0bcab-c37e-4ecb-960e-5b46dcc10c2f@googlegroups.com
Alan <lngndvs@gmail.com> writes:
> Do the keybindings of Emacs, and of the desktop on OS X derive from a
> common ancestor, independently, or is something darker at work?
"Emacs" existed as a concept before GNU Emacs, e.g. Gosling Emacs and
Montgomery Emacs... all ultimately derived in concept from RMS's TECO
Emacs. For a while, it was popular to integrate a subset of Emacs
keybindings in other systems (this is why they can be used in bash, for
instance, and as my other message mentioned Motif). I suspect OS X's
usage of it is a holdover of Nextstep doing this - there were certainly
no such keybindings in the pre-OSX mac environment as far as I can
remember.
I don't know what you mean by "something darker", though.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-30 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-27 8:34 I am confused: why Emacs keybindings in OS X? Alan
2016-01-27 8:43 ` tomas
2016-01-27 9:35 ` Christian Kruse
2016-01-27 11:25 ` tomas
2016-01-29 1:55 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-01-30 6:24 ` Random832
2016-01-30 6:28 ` Random832 [this message]
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