一部Emacs的历史,等于一部计算机史,一部世界黑客史

1976    EMACS
by Richard Stallman
ran on ITS and TWENEX (Tops-20)
written in TECO and PDP 10 assembly.

1978    Multics Emacs
by Bernie Greenberg
written in MacLisp;
first version to use Lisp as
an extension language.

EINE (EINE Is Not EMACS)
by Dan Weinreb and Mike McMahon
for MIT Lisp Machine
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1979                           ZWEI (ZWEI Was EINE Initially)
by Dan Weinreb and Mike McMahon
(later known as ZMACS)

1981                                           Gosling Emacs
by James Gosling
written in C; with
"Mocklisp" as ext. lang.
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1984?                     /             Hemlock
/              by Rob MacLachlan et al
/               written in Spice Lisp
/                (CMU Common Lisp)
1985  GNU Emacs 15.34 (early 85)
by Richard Stallman
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GNU Emacs 16.56 (15-jul-85)
(Gosling code expunged
for copyright reasions)
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GNU Emacs 16.60 (19-sep-85)
(contained first patches from
the net, including preliminary
SYSV support)
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GNU Emacs 17.36 (20-dec-85)
(included TeX manual; first
version that worked on SYSV
out of the box)
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1986  GNU Emacs 18.24 beta (2-oct-86)
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1987  GNU Emacs 18.41 (22-mar-87)
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GNU Emacs 18.45 (2-jun-87)
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GNU Emacs 18.49 (18-sep-87)
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1988  GNU Emacs 18.50 (13-feb-88)
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GNU Emacs 18.51 (7-may-88)
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GNU Emacs 18.52 (1-sep-88)
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1989  GNU Emacs 18.53 (24-feb-89)                           Epoch (1989?)
|                                              by Simon Kaplan,
|                                              Chris Love, et al
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GNU Emacs 18.54 (26-apr-89)                                     |
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GNU Emacs 18.55 (23-aug-89)                                     |
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1990         |      \                                     Epoch 3.2 (11-dec-90)
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|        \____ (sporadic work on                         |
|               GNU Emacs 19 begins)                     |
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|                     |                      Epoch 4.0 (27-aug-90)
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1991  GNU Emacs 18.57 (??-jan-91)  |                                  |
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GNU Emacs 18.58 (??-???-91)  |                                  |
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1992         |                     |   Lucid Emacs 19.0 (??-apr-92)   |
|                     |   by Jamie Zawinski et al        |
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|                     |   Lucid Emacs 19.1 (4-jun-92)    |
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GNU Emacs 18.59 (31-oct-92)  |   Lucid Emacs 19.2 (19-jun-92)   |
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|                    /    Lucid Emacs 19.3 (9-sep-92)    |
|                   /        |                           |
|                  /      Lucid Emacs 19.4 (21-jan-93)   |
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|  /                      Lucid Emacs 19.6 (9-apr-93)    |
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1993  GNU Emacs 19.7 beta (22-may-93)     |                          /|
first public v19 beta               |                         / |
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GNU Emacs 19.8 beta (27-may-93)     |                       /   |
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|                         Lucid Emacs 19.8 (6-sep-93)    |
|                         (Epoch merger, preliminary     |
|                          I18N support)                 |
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GNU Emacs 19.22 beta (28-nov-93)    |                           |
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1994         |                         Lucid Emacs 19.9 (12-may-94)  /
|                         (scrollbars, Athena)         /
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GNU Emacs 19.23 beta (17-may-94)    |                       /
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|                         Lucid Emacs 19.10 (27-may-94)
|                         last JWZ release
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GNU Emacs 19.24 beta (16-may-94)    |
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|                         XEmacs 19.11 (13-sep-94)
|                         Lucid Emacs -> XEmacs renaming.
|                         now maintained by Chuck Thompson
|                         and Ben Wing.
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GNU Emacs 19.27 beta (14-sep-94)    |
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GNU Emacs 19.28 (1-nov-94)          |
first official v19 release          |
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1995         |                         XEmacs 19.12 (23-jun-95)
|                         (tty support)    \
GNU Emacs 19.29 (21-jun-95)         |              \
|                            |        (work on 20.x begins)
GNU Emacs 19.30 (24-nov-95)         |               :
|           \                |               :
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|                         XEmacs 19.13 (1-sep-95)
1996  GNU Emacs 19.31 (25-may-96)         |
|                         XEmacs 19.14 (23-jun-96)
GNU Emacs 19.34 (21-aug-96)         |                   \
1997         |                         XEmacs 20.0 (9-feb-97)  \
|                         now maintained by        \
|                         Steve Baur                |
|                            |           XEmacs 19.15 (26-mar-97)
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|                         XEmacs 20.1 (15-apr-97)   |
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|                         XEmacs 20.2 (16-may-97)   |
GNU Emacs 20.1 (17-sep-97)          |                      |
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GNU Emacs 20.2 (20-sep-97)          |                      |
|                            |           XEmacs 19.16 (31-oct-97)
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|                         XEmacs 20.3 (21-nov-97)
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1998         |                         XEmacs 20.4 (28-feb-98)
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GNU Emacs 20.3 (19-aug-98)

2003
GNU Emacs 21.3