[lispm]

Stallman did not mention Guy L Steele jr. and Dave Moon.

Not so nice...

http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html

Dan Weinreb described it this way:

'(TECO-based) Emacs was created and designed by Guy L. Steele Jr. and David Moon. After they had it working, and it had become established as the standard text editor at the AI lab, Stallman took over its maintenance.'

[mjn]

Hmm, this other 1979-era history of Emacs also doesn't mention Steele, though it does mention Weinreb and Moon, whom the author seems to have worked with closely: http://www.multicians.org/mepap.html.

[Curmudgel]

http://web.archive.org/web/20120217011347/http://danweinreb....

[kps]

That's a wonderfully interesting article.

Steele was one of the authors of the TMACS package, for which this article has “???” in the references.

Incidentally, the article mentions Multics' version of QED in passing; this regular-expression-based editor was written by Ken Thompson¹ and is a (more complicated) ancestor of ed(1), the standard text editor on Unix.

¹ http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/qed.html

[pekk]

All these years later and XEmacs is still trying to steamroll RMS. Can you just stop?

[hga]

I heard this history from an eyewitness in, oh, about 1981 plus or minus a year, long before RMS forked Gosling Emacs for his GNU Emacs.

None of the three other listed AI Lab names ever had anything to do with these C/UNIX(TM) versions of EMACS.