From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:C70:editor-people Newsgroups: fa.editor-p Title: Re: Editor-Actions. Article-I.D.: ucb.1945 Posted: Tue Sep 14 05:45:40 1982 Received: Fri Sep 17 02:11:20 1982 >From BSG@SCRC-TENEX@MIT-MC Tue Sep 14 05:42:55 1982 Another reason linked lines were chosen for multics emacs was to optimize line-like operations, ie, next, previous, end, beginning, etc, letting these be done without searching, figuring these were very important in a real-text editor.