Welcome to the fold. Emacs is basically a lisp image with a built-in text editor. You can even write web servers in it (and people have). The utility of such a

Welcome to the fold. Emacs is basically a lisp image with a built-in text editor. You can even write web servers in it (and people have). The utility of such a system beyond just editing one or text files at a time is enormous. Enjoy your stay.