Re: History Re: Debunking Emacs merits over GUI - Re: package for Email

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:33:54 -0800
> 
> >> Wasn't the display engine derived from Lucid Emacs?
> >
> > No, it was coded by Gerd Möllmann from scratch.  Some features were
> > borrowed from XEmacs, but only as far as the specification, behavior,
> > and UX are concerned; no code was taken, AFAIR.
> 
> My memory is faulty as well.  I remember JamieZ wanting to get the Lucid
> Emacs code into Gnu Emacs and Stallman having a problem with (IIRC) the
> proprietariness of it, but the details were too "in the weeds" for me to
> follow.

That was about 10 years before the Emacs 21 display engine was
designed and implemented.