Multics Emacs

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Multics Emacs is an early, extensible text editor developed for the Multics operating system that helped shape the design and philosophy of later Emacs implementations.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Emacs implementation
extensible text editor
screen editor
text editor
designPhilosophy editor as programmable environment
self-documenting editor
user-level programmability
developer Bernard Greenberg
distributionModel bundled with Multics installation
extensibilityModel Lisp-based extension language
historicalPeriod 1970s
influenced Emacs design philosophy
Emacs family of editors
surface form: Emacs editor family

Emacs help and documentation mechanisms
GNU Emacs
concept of self-documenting commands in Emacs
influencedBy TECO Emacs
inspired concept of Emacs major and minor modes
use of Lisp as extension language in editors
license proprietary
notableFor being one of the first fully extensible editors
early use of Lisp for editor extensibility
influencing later Emacs keybinding and command concepts
operatingSystem Multics
partOf Multics software ecosystem
platform GE-645
Honeywell 6000 series
surface form: Honeywell 6180
programmingLanguage Lisp programming language
surface form: Lisp

Maclisp
surface form: Multics Maclisp
runsOn Multics
surface form: Multics time-sharing system
softwareGenre programmer’s editor
text processing tool
supportsFeature customizable key bindings
editing of source code
incremental development of extensions
interactive command execution
macros
multiple buffers
programmable editing commands
programmable key sequences
user extensibility
targetUser programmers
technical users
userInterface terminal-based interface

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TECO Emacs influenced Multics Emacs
TECO Emacs successor Multics Emacs