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Emacs does do one thing and one thing well: it runs elisp code. The image just happens to have a text editor and a bunch of other useful utilities built-in.
by agentultra 11y ago
Emacs does do one thing and one thing well: it runs elisp code.
The image just happens to have a text editor and a bunch of other useful utilities built-in.
- yellowapple 11y agoTo expand on this, each elisp package tends to do one thing and do it well. The majority of my Emacs workflow is basically just a bunch of small, single-purpose elisp programs that get used alongside one another. Emacs looking like the antithesis of the Unix philosophy is only because the Unix nature is deeply embedded within it.
- emodendroket 11y agoThat hardly describes all of them.
- yellowapple 11y agoIt describes a rather substantial majority of them. There are exceptions, sure, but that changes very little of Emacs' Unix nature.
- s73v3r 11y agoI think that's stretching the meaning of the philosophy quite a bit.