A difference between emacs functions and awk one-liners is that the former are highly composable. Over the course of weeks you can build whole libraries of cus

A difference between emacs functions and awk one-liners is that the former are highly composable. Over the course of weeks you can build whole libraries of custom text-manipulation functionality for your particular domain, all integrated seamlessly into your editor. The thought of calling out to tools like awk for this is really galling. Could just be me, though.