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The lesson is to be the first editor with an API and plugin system. That’s the trick. It’s like QWERTY.
by new_realist 6y ago
The lesson is to be the first editor with an API and plugin system. That’s the trick. It’s like QWERTY.
- celeritascelery 6y agoBut the funny thing is Emacs has neither of those. There is no real "API" or "plugin system". Just code. You can copy a function off the internet and paste it into editor and now it is part of your Emacs. And you can modify any of the existing code as much as you please. That is the lesson of Emacs.
- new_realist 6y agoI don’t see that as a benefit, I see that as an accident. The fact that the whole thing is a hairball isn’t how editors two centuries from now will be. But it is an approximation to a modern system.