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Aucb.320 fa.editor-p utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:editor-people Tue Jan 19 12:56:47 1982 exact duplicates >From reid@Shasta@Sumex-Aim Tue Jan 19 10:57:50 1982 I am absolutely appalled at the thought of investing a man-year or whatever doing an exact duplicate of any system, let alone one that has so little global consistency as ITS Emacs. I was a Twenex Emacs user for many years, and when Gosling's first showed up, I used it because I had better access to a VAX. After I had used it for 3 months, you couldn't have @i[paid] me to go back to the first-generation Emacs. So-called "Real Emacs" is an extremely fine editor, but Gosling's next-generation editor is a tremendous improvement on it. I certainly hope that Editor-People is not generally populated with folks who believe that any editor is good enough that we should be reprogramming exact copies of it in different languages rather than discussing issues of what makes editors good and how we can make an existing one better.

If it is considered an acceptable discussion topic, I would be happy to prepare a treatise on why I think Gosling's editor is a marked improvement over Stallman's original, even though it has not yet had the time to mature and develop the vast collection of libraries and packages. It will have to wait until after POPL, as I am away from Stanford and my notes right now.

Brian

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