Harry Rickards wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 07:30:25AM EDT, Harry Rickards wrote: >> >>> Plus, even though emacs does other stuff apart from editing, what can >>> emacs do that a separate tool can't do? >> It can integrate those separate tools. ... >> >> > 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*. ... >> a. Why exactly would it need to?
... >> >> b. Actually, Emacs does (do one thing well): >> >> It handles editing-style text manipulation, ... > Fair points, I can't argue with any of them. I think it's really just a > matter of opinion as to what text editor you use, ,, Of course. Note that I wasn't arguing which editor anyone should use (just how Emacs does somewhat fit that Unix philosophy). Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]