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I think a misunderstood part of Emacs is that this is exactly what it is—-it’s just glue, but instead of being in a command-oriented environment, it’s in an edi
by cle 6y ago
I think a misunderstood part of Emacs is that this is exactly what it is—-it’s just glue, but instead of being in a command-oriented environment, it’s in an editor-oriented environment. You run the same Unix tools but glue their results together into a text buffer with a full programming language that then lets you programmatically edit the results.
People joke about Emacs being an OS but it’s really just a different kind of shell, oriented towards text editing instead of issuing commands.
- Aloha 6y agoWithout commenting on substance, Emacs is an application that rehomed itself on unix, but isnt a genetic unix application, Emacs was developed on ITS.
- randomswede 6y agoDefinitely originally. I suspect that a modern emacs has more unix under the hood than it has ITS under the hood. I am not sure if we should care about the differentiation between TECO-Emacs on one hand and Elisp-Emacs on the other.