From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta Subject: Re: GNU Emacs release dates Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:25:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <010701c4cd4c$6e19f520$210110ac@NEEEEEEE> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100780773 2392 80.91.229.6 (18 Nov 2004 12:26:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org, kevinr@ihs.com, Ben Wing , emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 18 13:26:07 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CUlMU-0001jl-00 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:26:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUlVL-0006y2-0U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:35:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUlUx-0006xq-8M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:34:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUlUw-0006xR-HW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:34:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUlUw-0006xO-FZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:34:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CUlLp-0006Ac-0f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:25:25 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CUlKX-0005X5-Ju; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:24:05 -0500 Original-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:06:00 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30021 gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:17047 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30021 Miles Bader writes: > Gosmacs certainly didn't borrow any code from the earlier (original) > emacs, it was an utterly and completely different beast (I spent a > lot of time perusing both gosmacs and ITS Emacs source code as an > undergraduate). Even the user-interface was different in many ways > -- it was mostly the general concepts and most common command > bindings that were based on ITS emacs. > > The later GNU Emacs in turn borrowed[*] not just some code, but UI > concepts from gosmacs as well, e.g. the user of ordinary buffers for > displaying completion and the like instead of using "typeout" like > ITS Emacs did. > > [*] I suppose it may simply be a case of both "doing the obvious > thing" though. Thanks for countering my speculations (which thus have served their purpose) with some solid facts. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum