Emacs is in many ways anti-Unix-philosophy and I think the way it’s software tends to be structured is no exception. Functions can get ad-hoc extensions or modi

Emacs is in many ways anti-Unix-philosophy and I think the way it’s software tends to be structured is no exception. Functions can get ad-hoc extensions or modifications all over the place with advice and hooks and dynamic scoping[1]. The only similarity is that in Unix most things are files and in Emacs most things are buffers. [1] Unix has weird ad-hoc mechanisms too like environment variables or your PATH containing modified versions of programs, and it has programs that do a thousand and one things, but I claim those are mostly violations of the Unix philosophy.