[Info-vax] Lisp alternatives for Emacs [was Re: Python for x86?]

Rich Alderson news at alderson.users.panix.com
Sat Apr 22 16:48:20 EDT 2023


Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam at nocrew.org> writes:

> Rich Alderson wrote:
>> Meanwhile, an editor with the capabilities of EMACS was desired for
>> the Lisp machines being created by the AI Lab, so taking their cue
>> from the Multics port two Lisp based editors, EINE ("EINE Is Not
>> EMACS") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"), were created.

> Minor correction: EINE was create in 1977, before Multics Emacs was
> started in 1978.

Good to know.  I never saw EINE, only ZWEI on the Symbolics 3600, but used the
Multics port extensively for a project at UChicago.

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