Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Both the emacs philosophy (everything is inside the editor) and the
mechanisms (everything works the *emacs* way in spite of the underlying
OS) are at odds with the Unix way (simple discrete tools and no imposed
mechanism).
-a
emacs predates UNIX, and thus does not share its heritage. Its shared
development model definately is kindred with the FOSS movement, though
it does not follow the UNIX paradigm. I don't know that it would qualify
as an OS, but it is a full operating environment similiar to XTREE or
Norton Commander, or many others that have and are used now. I would say
emacs does those things better than most, if you like that sort of
thing. To call it a text editor is simply not correct. Text editing is
simply its default mode.
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