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- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages? Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 12:27:06 +0100 From: Harry Rickards <hricka...@l33tmyst.com> To: Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> References: <87hc04vds8....@jidanni.org> <49fb4e23.8040...@l33tmyst.com> <20090501234026.gc2...@turki.gavron.org> <87zldwnzi6....@thumper.dhh.gt.org> <20090502112017.ga2...@turki.gavron.org> Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:02:09PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: >> jidanni wrote: >>> Why must emacs depend on sound packages? >> I had never noticed that. Pretty objectionable, I think. I have no use >> for sound in Emacs. It should be at most a "Suggests". >> >> Chris Jones writes: >>> I don't want to turn this into a flamewar, but couldn't you use another >>> editor, like vi, vim, nano, pico or ed? >> I use both Emacs and Vi. >> >>> ... and there you have it.. I think that the correct answer is that emacs >>> is not an editor.. >> Its primary function is editing. Therefor it is an editor. > > Sorry, forgot the smiley. > > CJ > > Plus, even though emacs does other stuff apart from editing, what can emacs do that a separate tool can't do? Surely if emacs is more than an editor, it doesn't follow Doug McIlroy's UNIX philosophy: Write programs that *do one thing and do it well*. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C++++ UL++++ P- L+++ !E W+++ N o? K+ w--- O- M- V-PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D---- G e* h! !r y? - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkn8LtEACgkQ1kZz3mRu0GpV1QCePKr9SmEsYuwwIm0O9skqf50h wf0An3H8XBsV1TKhAKVkqFV7BTRh9NbW =3MmO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
