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Historical Emacs Software Preservation

7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2019-10-14 · latest 2025-04-25

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  1. …support for NeWS (Gosling's PostScript based window system), tabbed windows and pie menus, etc: https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/tree/sources/... So the answer to DVRC's ("Adopter of orphaned technologies") question on June…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2025-04-25 · in Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
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    An interview with Bernard Greenberg, the creator of Multics Emacs
    story by mepian · 2024-04-06 · 0 comments
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    Historical Emacs Software Preservation
    story by homarp · 2020-09-26 · 0 comments
  4. …be obtained from anyone who has a copy or by sending $150 payable to me " On old emacs source code: https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history
    comment by homarp · 2020-09-26 · in James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and Computing History [video]
  5. https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history has the details... there's some Gosling code (notably display.c with the skull-and-bones warning) in Emacs 13, but none that I can find in 15 and later.
    comment by bbanyc · 2019-11-21 · in A Mystery of Unix History
  6. …including "Demonstrably better than vi", but I bet it didn't let you psychoanalyze Zippy. [1]: https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history [2]: http://web.archive.org/web/19961125071933/http://www.unipres...
    comment by bbanyc · 2019-10-14 · in James Gosling on Richard Stallman [video]
  7. I found this copy of what seems to be the source code: https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/blob/sources/... It has copyright notices everywhere (not that this matters). And following notice in Installation: Please remember that…
    comment by tobias3 · 2019-10-14 · in James Gosling on Richard Stallman [video]