Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Sergey Organov]

Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>
writes:

>> On May 17, 2020, at 15:49, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> Having status and error messages at the bottom is
>> pretty common, and not just in editors.
>
> But is that a decision based on cognitive studies or on technical
> limitations when the solution was implemented ?

I suspect it's modeled after simple text terminals, where both latest
messages and the input are at the bottom.

Who and when first moved input line to the top I don't know.

-- Sergey