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Did OS X even include emacs???

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It did. I checked their opensource repo and it looks like they removed it in 10.15. The shell was also tcsh at the time and the terminal, I think, defaulted to black on white. Everything about it was unfamiliar to a Mac user, it felt like an old library Dynix system.

it looks like they removed it in 10.15

Things have really gone downhill

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