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I popped a comment in the original post about wanting to see some RMS code. After doing a lot of searching, I still can't find a thing. I don't want to get terribly off topic, but as I said, I'd always heard he was a great programmer and would love to see some code that was of his creation.

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I don't know what parts of early GCC were his, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#GNU_Emacs suggests Emacs 13.x or 15.x source tarballs from around 1985 would be mostly his own work. I don't know whether they'd still be around, though. The oldest I can find at a glance is http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/old-gnu/emacs/emacs-18.59.tar.gz from 1992, and I don't know how many other contributors there had been at that point.

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