Multics Emacs
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Multics Emacs was an implementation of the Emacs
text editor
written in Maclisp
by Bernard Greenberg
at Honeywell
's Cambridge Information Systems Lab. User-supplied extensions were also written in the Lisp programming language
. The choice in 1978 of Lisp provided more extensibility than ever before, and has been followed by most subsequent Emacs implementations.
Emacs
Emacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...
text editor
Text editor
A text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files.Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code....
written in Maclisp
Maclisp
MACLISP is a dialect of the Lisp programming language. It originated at MIT's Project MAC in the late 1960s and was based on Lisp 1.5. Richard Greenblatt was the main developer of the original codebase for the PDP-6; Jonl White was responsible for its later maintenance and development...
by Bernard Greenberg
Bernard Greenberg
Bernard S. Greenberg is a programmer and computer scientist, known for his work on Multics and the Lisp machine.-Projects:In 1978, Greenberg implemented Multics Emacs using Multics Maclisp...
at Honeywell
Honeywell
Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....
's Cambridge Information Systems Lab. User-supplied extensions were also written in the Lisp programming language
Lisp programming language
Lisp is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized syntax. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today; only Fortran is older...
. The choice in 1978 of Lisp provided more extensibility than ever before, and has been followed by most subsequent Emacs implementations.