You might be interested in the debates between Stallman and Sandewall. It's in _Interactive Programming Environments_; Stallman took the side of text editing, a

You might be interested in the debates between Stallman and Sandewall. It's in _Interactive Programming Environments_; Stallman took the side of text editing, and Sandewall took the side of structure editing. The book is maybe a good gift for Lisp history nuts, and it's only $3 used on amazon.com.