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Emacs is built on Unix like vi and everything else. The fact that vi has a less elegant language doesn't affect me, because I don't see much value in adding ext
by coliveira 6y ago
Emacs is built on Unix like vi and everything else. The fact that vi has a less elegant language doesn't affect me, because I don't see much value in adding extensions to the editor. What I need is a sane user interface, which vim provides.
- abjKT26nO8 6y agoThe original Emacs was written for Multics at a time when people outside of Bell Labs were largely unaware of the existence of Unix[1]. It also doesn't follow the Unix philosophy of making small CLI utilities composed with pipes. As I understand it (though I haven't used it), Acme is extended with external programs which communicate through pipes just like the traditional Unix utilities. [1]: https://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html
- coliveira 6y agoThe first version of Emacs was not made in lisp, instead it used TECO, a horrible programming editor/programming language.