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From: | Charles philip Chan |
Subject: | Re: `woman' can't be used outside emacs? |
Date: | Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:08:25 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
On 21 Dec 2006, followait@163.com wrote: > Emacs tries to do almost everything when it is possible. > I can't understand why it does this way. It doesn't make sense if you think of Emacs as just a text editor. A more helpful way is to think of Emacs as a LISP machine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine which specializes in manipulating text streams. In fact this is how Emacs was designed. It consists of a small core (LISP interpretor and functions where speed is essential) that is written in C. The rest is implemented in Emacs LISP. Charles -- panic ("Splunge!"); linux-2.2.16/drivers/scsi/psi240i.c
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