Isn’t eMacs just a text editor like vim or nano?

Hah, is this a troll? It’s a lot older than those editors.

EMACS started as Eugene Ciccareli’ init file for the TECO editor (which was also a programming language) around 1976. Hence the name (Eugene‘s Macros). It was later rewritten in Lisp for Multics, the MIT Lisp Machine (I worked on one for the Xerox lisp machine as well), and later Unix (in those cases using lisp only as an extension language)

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		> Hence the name (Eugene‘s Macros) Interesting, do you have a source for this? I’ve always read that it stood for Editor MACros, are you saying this is a backronym?

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TacticalCoder 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Isn’t eMacs just a text editor like vim or nano?

For a start it's either spelled "Emacs" or "EMACS", and definitely not "eMacs".

Then it's closer to an OS than an editor.

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		> For a start it's either spelled "Emacs" or "EMACS", and definitely not "eMacs". Everyone knows that, but iOS autocorrects Emacs -> eMacs because Apple used to sell a product called "eMac".

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hotcrossbunny an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

...or notepad