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[xemacs-hg @ 2004-12-06 03:50:53 by ben] (none) README.packages: Document use of --package-prefix. Fix error in specifying standard package location. make-docfile.c: Use QXE_PATH_MAX. info.el: Correct doc string giving example package path. menubar-items.el: Move Prefix Rectangle command up one level. xemacs/packages.texi: Add long form of Lisp Reference Manual to links. Add links pointing to Lisp Reference Manual for more detailed package discussion. lispref/range-tables.texi: Document range-table changes. internals/internals.texi: Update history section. elhash.c, elhash.h, profile.c: Create inchash_eq() to allow direct incrementing of hash-table entry. Use in profile.c to try to reduce profiling overhead. Increase initial size of profile hash tables to reduce profiling overhead. buffer.c, device-msw.c, dialog-msw.c, dired-msw.c, editfns.c, event-msw.c, events.c, glyphs-msw.c, keymap.c, objects-msw.c, process-nt.c, syswindows.h, text.c, text.h, unexnt.c: Rename xetcs* -> qxetcs* for consistency with qxestr*. Rename ei*_c(_*) -> ei*_ascii(_*) since they work with ASCII-only strings not "C strings", whatever those are. This is the last place where "c" was incorrectly being used for "ascii". dialog-msw.c, dumper.c, event-msw.c, fileio.c, glyphs-gtk.c, glyphs-x.c, nt.c, process-nt.c, realpath.c, sysdep.c, sysfile.h, unexcw.c, unexnext.c, unexnt.c: Try to avoid differences in systems that do or do not include final null byte in PATH_MAX. Create PATH_MAX_INTERNAL and PATH_MAX_EXTERNAL and use them everywhere. Rewrite code in dumper.c to avoid use of PATH_MAX. When necessary in nt.c, use _MAX_PATH instead of MAX_PATH to be consistent with other places. text.c: Code to short-circuit when binary or Unicode was not working due to EOL wrapping. Fix this code to work when either no EOL autodetection or no CR's or LF's in the text. lisp.h, rangetab.c, rangetab.h, regex.c, search.c: Implement different types of ranges (open/closed start and end). Change default to be start-closed, end-open.
author ben
date Mon, 06 Dec 2004 03:52:23 +0000
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 @cindex Free Software Foundation
 
   XEmacs is a powerful, customizable text editor and development
-environment.  It began as Lucid Emacs, which was in turn derived from
-GNU Emacs, a program written by Richard Stallman of the Free Software
-Foundation.  GNU Emacs dates back to the 1970's, and was modelled
-after a package called ``Emacs'', written in 1976, that was a set of
-macros on top of TECO, an old, old text editor written at MIT on the
-DEC PDP 10 under one of the earliest time-sharing operating systems,
-ITS (Incompatible Timesharing System). (ITS dates back well before
-Unix.) ITS, TECO, and Emacs were products of a group of people at MIT
-who called themselves ``hackers'', who shared an idealistic belief
-system about the free exchange of information and were fanatical in
-their devotion to and time spent with computers. (The hacker
-subculture dates back to the late 1950's at MIT and is described in
-detail in Steven Levy's book @cite{Hackers}.  This book also includes
-a lot of information about Stallman himself and the development of
-Lisp, a programming language developed at MIT that underlies Emacs.)
+environment.  It began in 1991 as Lucid Emacs, which was in turn
+derived from GNU Emacs, a program written by Richard Stallman of the
+Free Software Foundation.  GNU Emacs dates back to 1985 and was
+modelled after Unipress Emacs, an editor written by James Gosling in
+1981 and based on a series of other "Emacs"-like editors, including
+EINE (EINE Is Not EMACS), c. 1976, by Dan Weinreb, which run on the
+MIT Lisp Machine and was the first Emacs written in Lisp; ZWEI (ZWEI
+Was EINE Initially), c. 1978, by Dan Weinreb and Mike McMahon; Multics
+Emacs, c. 1978, by Bernie Greenberg, which was written in MacLisp and
+also used Lisp as its extension language; and ZMACS, c. 1980, a direct
+descendant of ZWEI that on ran the Symbolics LM-2, LMI LispM, and
+later, TI Explorer (1983-1989).  These in turn were inspired by the
+first Emacs, a package called EMACS, written in 1976 by Richard
+Stallman, Guy Steele, and Dave Moon.  This was a merger of TECMAC and
+TMACS, a pair of "TECO-macro realtime editors" written by Guy Steele,
+Dave Moon, Richard Greenblatt, Charles Frankston, et al., and added a
+dynamic loader and Meta-key cmds.  It ran under ITS (the Incompatible
+Timesharing System) on a DEC PDP 10 and under TWENEX on a Tops-20 and
+was written in TECO and PDP 10 assembly.  ITS was one of the first
+time-sharing operating systems and dates back well before Unix.  ITS,
+TECO, and Emacs were products of a group of people at MIT who called
+themselves ``hackers'', who shared an idealistic belief system about
+the free exchange of information and were fanatical in their devotion
+to and time spent with computers. (The hacker subculture dates back to
+the late 1950's at MIT and is described in detail in Steven Levy's
+book @cite{Hackers}.  This book also includes a lot of information
+about Stallman himself and the development of Lisp, a programming
+language developed at MIT that underlies Emacs.)
 
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