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by KerrAvon
1358 days ago
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I think more precisely Vim does a *different* job of violating the HIG than Emacs does. I don’t recall there being a successful Emacs port to classic Mac OS — I would have been very interested in the early to mid 90’s. The Mac editor landscape was actually pretty sparse if you wanted something sophisticated/integrated/customizable. There was Alpha, which was Tcl-based. MPW’s editor wasn’t customizable to the same degree. BBEdit existed, but it was actually quite bare bones at that point; even today it’s still pretty fixed-function. |
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Correct. Apple had emacs removed from A/UX because it took up too much space. Though some built it on their Macs in the late 1980s, it didn't have full functionality, at least not without headaches.[1] But A/UX came with vi, which worked well.
[1] https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.unix.aux/1989-September/003...