> emacs isn't a library for creating rich text mode applications It (almost) literally is. You ever hear that old joke "Emacs is a great operating system, now

> emacs isn't a library for creating rich text mode applications It (almost) literally is. You ever hear that old joke "Emacs is a great operating system, now if only it had a decent text editor"? That comes from that reality that Emacs is better at creating "rich text mode applications" (e.g. org-mode, SLIME, magit) than it is at actually being a good out-of-the-box text editor. Emacs gives you a text-based abstraction that exists on a bunch of platforms, an extensive standard library, and a massive ecosystem for building text mode applications. Including, yes, "in the terminal".