Hah, is this a troll? It’s a lot older than those editors.
replyEMACS started as Eugene Ciccareli’ init file for the TECO editor (which was also a programming language) around 1976. Hence the name (Eugene‘s Macros). It was later rewritten in Lisp for Multics, the MIT Lisp Machine (I worked on one for the Xerox lisp machine as well), and later Unix (in those cases using lisp only as an extension language)
> Hence the name (Eugene‘s Macros)
replyInteresting, do you have a source for this? I’ve always read that it stood for Editor MACros, are you saying this is a backronym?
Doesn't seem true, the Wikipedia page for Emacs only mentions Eugene once as one of the early contributors, not as the creator. The original TECO macros were made by Guy L Steele Jr.
reply> Isn’t eMacs just a text editor like vim or nano?
replyFor a start it's either spelled "Emacs" or "EMACS", and definitely not "eMacs".
Then it's closer to an OS than an editor.
> For a start it's either spelled "Emacs" or "EMACS", and definitely not "eMacs".
replyEveryone knows that, but iOS autocorrects Emacs -> eMacs because Apple used to sell a product called "eMac".
...or notepad
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