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Emacs is not a text editor. Emacs is a portable programming platform and text editing is just the default application implemented on it.

• laythea 8y ago
  Sounds like overkill to me.
  • mbrumlow 8y ago
    Yet we have entire editors that do far less that require a entire web browser and take 100+ Meg's of ram to run. Edit: gigabytes of ram.
    • laythea 8y ago
      That's overkill too.
      • username223 8y ago
        "There are two kinds of overkill: the sort of overkill that lets you write Gameboy emulators, or Enterprise overkill; the sort of overkill that’s only bloat. I have no patience for useless things."
        • throwawaymath 8y ago
          Who said that?
          • aerique 8y ago
            username223
          • deleted 8y ago
            [deleted]
  • aerique 8y ago
    Quite a lot of things we do on the computer involves manipulating text.
  • admax88q 8y ago
    "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." In the Emacs case, Stallman just made that explicit, implementing Lisp from the start.