Chapter
Evolution of Text Editing Commands
29:06 - 34:12 (05:06)
The speaker compares their experience using old text editing commands which required multiple commands for one character to newer, more efficient editing commands.
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Learn about how the original Emacs from MIT started out as a collection of macros for the Tico text editor, and the philosophy behind Emacs.
29:06 - 30:15 (01:09)
Emacs
Summary
Learn about how the original Emacs from MIT started out as a collection of macros for the Tico text editor, and the philosophy behind Emacs. Also, discover how Lisp fits into the picture and if all the implementations were always in C.
ChapterEvolution of Text Editing Commands
Episode#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Movement, explains the origins of the text editor, Emacs, and its precursor, Tico.
30:16 - 32:26 (02:10)
Richard Stallman
Summary
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Movement, explains the origins of the text editor, Emacs, and its precursor, Tico.
ChapterEvolution of Text Editing Commands
Episode#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The speaker recounts their first experience with Emacs in writing a Pascal compiler and how it influenced their decision to create an implementation of Emacs in C for Unix.
32:29 - 34:12 (01:43)
Emacs
Summary
The speaker recounts their first experience with Emacs in writing a Pascal compiler and how it influenced their decision to create an implementation of Emacs in C for Unix.