Emacs is not a text editor, this is a common fallacy. It's an entire environment, the closest thing that we have today to the Lisp Machines of myth and legend.

Emacs is not a text editor, this is a common fallacy. It's an entire environment, the closest thing that we have today to the Lisp Machines of myth and legend. An editor is simply one of the many applications it runs on top of the Emacs Lisp core.