1.3 GNU Emacs 19

About a year after the initial release of Lucid Emacs, the FSF released a beta of their version of Emacs 19 (referred to here as “GNU Emacs”). By this time, the current version of Lucid Emacs was 19.6. (Strangely, the first released beta from the FSF was GNU Emacs 19.7.) A time line for GNU Emacs version 19 is

• version 19.8 (beta) released May 27, 1993.
• version 19.9 (beta) released May 27, 1993.
• version 19.10 (beta) released May 30, 1993.
• version 19.11 (beta) released June 1, 1993.
• version 19.12 (beta) released June 2, 1993.
• version 19.13 (beta) released June 8, 1993.
• version 19.14 (beta) released June 17, 1993.
• version 19.15 (beta) released June 19, 1993.
• version 19.16 (beta) released July 6, 1993.
• version 19.17 (beta) released late July, 1993.
• version 19.18 (beta) released August 9, 1993.
• version 19.19 (beta) released August 15, 1993.
• version 19.20 (beta) released November 17, 1993.
• version 19.21 (beta) released November 17, 1993.
• version 19.22 (beta) released November 28, 1993.
• version 19.23 (beta) released May 17, 1994.
• version 19.24 (beta) released May 16, 1994.
• version 19.25 (beta) released June 3, 1994.
• version 19.26 (beta) released September 11, 1994.
• version 19.27 (beta) released September 14, 1994.
• version 19.28 (first “official” release) released November 1, 1994.
• version 19.29 released June 21, 1995.
• version 19.30 released November 24, 1995.
• version 19.31 released May 25, 1996.
• version 19.32 released July 31, 1996.
• version 19.33 released August 11, 1996.
• version 19.34 released August 21, 1996.
• version 19.34b released September 6, 1996.

In some ways, GNU Emacs 19 was better than Lucid Emacs; in some ways, worse. Lucid soon began incorporating features from GNU Emacs 19 into Lucid Emacs; the work was mostly done by Richard Mlynarik, who had been working on and using GNU Emacs for a long time (back as far as version 16 or 17).