Chapter 11. The emacs Editor
IN THIS CHAPTER
History
Tutorial: Getting Started with emacs
Basic Editing Commands
Online Help
Advanced Editing Topics
Language-Sensitive Editing
emacs and the X Window System
Resources for emacs
In 1956 the Lisp (List processing) language was developed at MIT by John McCarthy. In its original conception, Lisp had only a few scalar (called atomic) data types and only one data structure (page 1463): a list. Lists could contain atomic data or perhaps other lists. Lisp supported recursion and nonnumeric data (exciting concepts in those FORTRAN and COBOL days) and, in the Cambridge culture at least, was once the favored implementation language. Richard Stallman and Guy Steele were part of this MIT Lisp culture, and in 1975 ...
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