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George Jones :emacs: :orgmode:

For those interested in you might get a kick reading

multicians.org/mepap.html

It's an in-depth brain dump by Bernard S. Greenberg, author of emacs c.a. 1979. His was the first Emacs to use lisp as it's extension language and probably the only one to have it's source code comments in a mixture of Yiddish and .

Gives background on and the early creation of Emacs that was NOT done by

I happened to use this as an programming intern around 1981

www.multicians.orgMultics Emacs History/Design/ImplementationClassic paper describing thie history and design of Multics Emacs.
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George Jones :emacs: :orgmode:

Sadly, the source which used to be available here web.mit.edu/afs/net/dev/refere seems to no longer be available (afs retired?)

If anyone can find the source, let me know.

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