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Announcement! 🌈💻🤖 This month's Guix London, our 7th meetup, is on Mon 11th Dec. It's a hybrid event, do join us in person if you're in London and fancy some face-to-face interaction, you're also welcome to join us remotely otherwise. Simon Tournier will be giving a talk on G-expressions. More details: https://www.meetup.com/guix-london/events/297591582/ #GuixLondon #Guix #Guile #Scheme #FreeSoftware #London #meetup  Reminder: full-on #FreeSoftware galore in #London next week! - #Emacs London Meetup, Tue 22nd Aug, from 630pm, in King's Cross. More info: https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/294668548/ - #Guix London Meetup, Thu 24th Aug, from 6pm, at the Southbank Centre. More info: https://mobilizon.fr/events/89220a82-ced2-413e-b291-7cc3fcd8aa7c Oh wow, this is so exciting! Upcoming #Guix meetup in #London! https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-06/msg00062.html Date: Tue 27th Jun, 6pm BST https://mobilizon.fr/events/f18da336-07f5-489f-ae7c-394458668cea 🖤🤖💻 |
@fabionatali earlier this year I contacted Bernard Greenberg, who was the central force behind the development of Multics Emacs, and I learned a lot of striking things
https://functional.cafe/@PaniczGodek/112220185865167284
@fabionatali might want to check https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history if you actually want to try, I bet anything before the early nineties will be harder to build on a modern unix.
The patch set for emacs 18 in https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/emacs/ probably has hints needed to port anything much older, 18.59 is from 1992, so already more than a decade after Stallman's report you linked, and somehow more than 30 years old now. It's also the oldest version in https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/
@fabionatali You can get an account on a TOPS20 (and other) systems @ https://sdf.org/
A while back, I fired up TECO emacs for the first time in 3 or 4 decades. Oh my. I could edit with all the "standard" emacs control sequences, but today's GNU emacs is a different animal.