Support us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace Taken from the full episode "Emacs Pinky" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWSs5oWV1M0 You can watch us live on Twitch the day after an episode drops https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch Linux User Space subreddit https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit Linux User Space Discord Server https://linuxuserspace.show/discord Linux User Space Telegram https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram Linux User Space Matrix https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix Text Ed (History Series on Text Editors) - Emacs GNU Emacs https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ TECO editor https://dbpedia.org/page/TECO_(text_editor) TECO-6, compatible with the PDP-6 https://web.archive.org/web/20021001151829/http://www.transbay.net/%7Eenf/lore/teco/teco-64.html Gosling Emacs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6XHroNewc Initially Gosling permitted unrestricted redistribution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6XHroNewc Free software movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement UniPress began to redistribute and sell Gosling's Emacs on UNIX and VMS https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-12/page/n335/mode/2up?view=theater&q=unipress+emacs Interview in 2013 via Slashdot, Richard Stallman https://features.slashdot.org/story/13/01/06/163248/richard-stallman-answers-your-questions The Free Software Foundation is born https://web.archive.org/web/20130525155859/http://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corp/corpsearch/CorpSearchSummary.asp?ReadFromDB=True&UpdateAllowed=&FEIN=042888848 Richard Gabriel's Lucid Inc needed version 19 to support their IDE, Energize C++ https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html Emacs 21.1 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2001-10/msg00009.html Emacs 22.1 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2007-06/msg00000.html The last official release of XEmacs http://www.xemacs.org/Releases/21.4.22.html Emacs 23.1 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2009-07/msg00000.html Emacs 24.1 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2012-06/msg00000.html Emacs 25.1 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-09/msg00451.html Emacs 26.1 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-05/msg00765.html Emacs 27.1 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-08/msg00237.html Emacs 28.1 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-04/msg00093.html Emacs 28.2, the latest maintenance release is out https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-09/msg00730.html Further Reading The Beginnings of TECO https://opost.com/tenex/anhc-31-4-anec.pdf Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL https://web.archive.org/web/19991103221236/http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/%7Eelf/hack/realmen.html Emacs Timeline https://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation https://web.archive.org/web/20000819071104/http%3A//www.multicians.org/mepap.html Emacs History https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/history.html Macsimizing Teco https://web.archive.org/web/20131024150047/http://www.codeartnow.com/hacker-art-1/macsimizing-teco History of Emacs and XEmacs https://web.archive.org/web/20101122021051/http://commandline.org.uk/2007/history-of-emacs-and-xemacs/ #history #emacs #linux #unix