%% John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jh> Steve Lamb wrote:
>> Personally I can only go back as far as my first unix experience >> which is 10 years ago. I know that screen existed then as I used it all >> the time on Netcom. However since that's as far back as I can personally >> verify that is why I am asking for verification of your statement. jh> The earliest date I see in the Screen source is 1987. I started using Emacs on Vaxen (with REAL vt100 terminals) in 1984 (yikes! Dating myself now... :-/). That was Gosling Emacs though, not GNU Emacs. Anyway, screen is not the same thing _at all_. Editing a single file can be done with any editor, true, but a true multi-buffer editor can do so much more: you can see many buffers at the same time, you can cut and paste between them, you can insert one into the other, you can compare them, you can ... Emacs let you deal with mail, news, edit lots of code at the same time, plus it had a file manager, could run your compiles, and a bunch of other stuff... all with a unified and flexible interface. Emacs was really the first "desktop environment and IDE" for a time before there were even desktops or IDEs. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions--Nortel takes no responsibility for them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]