[sargstuff]

Yes, looking for link about history of emacs. As memory serves, EMACs was written using the common 80's approach (from scratch, in non-device independent ways because predates c 89 standard & modular libraries didn't exist). Currently, this is causing lots of headaches when trying to use/add/move things over to modern gui / standard modularized to avoid/minimize device dependence / leverage other projects useful to expand emacs)

Smaller project note: make was written as one shot thing with intend of about 5 people using it, hence decision to go with 'tab' and not space(s) at start of line.