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Re: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation |
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Tue, 03 Jul 2018 19:04:17 -0400 |
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> Historical note: Emacs did not invent this terminology. When I used
> TECO commands were explained / defined in terms of "point". For all I
> know TECO may in turn have inherited that terminology from even
> earlier editors (c.f. MIT's ITS or its PDP-1).
ITS, the Incompatible Timesharing System, was not a text editor.
Its text editor was TECO -- the very same TECO on top of which
EMACS was implemented.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Re: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation, Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth, 2018/07/03
RE: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation, Drew Adams, 2018/07/04