Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving?

[Emanuel Berg]

Kai Grossjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmail.com> writes:

> I believe that GNU Emacs was never rewritten.  It was
> incrementally refactored, and it's quite possible that
> every line of code has changed since the original
> version was published in 1985, but what I mean here is
> that as far as I know there was never a complete
> rewrite of the whole thing.
>
> I find that to be very impressive, and hence I
> mentioned 1985 as the date.
>
> Does anyone know whether this is true?  It would be
> quite the impressive feat!

"A complete rewrite..." Wouldn't that be a total
disaster? Why would you do that? Because of hardware
changes? Portability? Please explain :)

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