> The Unix "small programs that do one thing well" philosophy is often ignored, unfortunately. Emacs might be the single biggest offender of it, though I suppos

> The Unix "small programs that do one thing well" philosophy is often ignored, unfortunately. Emacs might be the single biggest offender of it, though I suppose it's to be expected since "GNU's Not Unix"... It's not because of GNU (which is a Unix workalike), but because Emacs originated on ITS and Genera Lisp Machines, which were truely very non-UNIXy environments.