begin quoting David M. Cook as of Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 03:13:34PM -0700: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 11:12:17AM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > > Shame? There's no shame in resisting the anti-UNIX attitude of emacs. :) > > Why do you think that? Emacs plays very well with unix.
#include <std.emacs.rant> Oh, I don't have that saved anywhere? Darn. Emacs isn't a do-one-thing-do-it-well program. It's an environment unto itself. It does *everything*, which is its strength, but a very non-UNIX attitude. I say it's anti-UNIX because it is, I believe, the major carrier of the anti-UNIX meme: that is, instead of writing cooperating programs that do one thing and do that one thing well, "integrated environments" are the key. Don't write cooperating programs, write plug-ins! Don't build up a library of programs, create a framework! Why should an _editor_ be able to read news? Email? Browse the web? Is it an editor or a shell? The jokes about Emacs being an okay operating system that ships with a lousy default editor aren't far off.... -Stewart "I'm becoming uncomfortable with the direction of vim..." Stremler
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