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<H2><A NAME="SEC79" HREF="mh-e_toc.html#TOC79">From Stephen Gildea</A></H2>
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In 1987 I went to work for Bolt Beranek and Newman, as Jim had before
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me. In my previous job, I had been using RMAIL, but as my folders tend
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to run large, I was frustrated with the speed of RMAIL. However, I
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stuck with it because I wanted the GNU Emacs interface. I am very
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familiar and comfortable with the Emacs interface (with just a few
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modifications of my own) and dislike having to use applications with
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embedded editors; they never live up to Emacs.
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MH is the mail reader of choice at BBN, so I converted to it. Since I
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didn't want to give up using an Emacs interface, I started using mh-e.
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As is my wont, I started hacking on it almost immediately. I first used
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version 3.4m. One of the first features I added was to treat the folder
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buffer as a file-visiting buffer: you could lock it, save it, and be
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warned of unsaved changes when killing it. I also worked to bring its
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functionality a little closer to RMAIL. Jim Larus was very cooperative
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about merging in my changes, and my efforts first appeared in version
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3.6, distributed with Emacs 18.52 in 1988. Next I decided mh-e was too
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slow and optimized it a lot. Version, 3.7, distributed with Emacs 18.56
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in 1990, was noticeably faster.
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When I moved to the X Consortium I became the first person there to not
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use xmh. (There is now one other engineer there using mh-e.) About
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this point I took over maintenance of mh-e from Jim and was finally able
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to add some features Jim hadn't accepted, such as the backward searching
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undo. My first release was 3.8 (Emacs 18.58) in 1992.
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Now, in 1994, we see a flurry of releases, with both 4.0 and 5.0.
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Version 4.0 added many new features, including background folder
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collection and support for composing MIME messages. (Reading
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MIME messages remains to be done, alas.) While writing this book,
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Bill Wohler gave mh-e its closest examination ever, uncovering bugs and
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inconsistencies that required a new major version to fix, and so version
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Stephen Gildea, June 1994
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