On 2005-07-05, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tom Anderson wrote:
>> +1 insight of the century. This is the heart of the unix way - lots of
>> simple little programs that do exactly one thing well, and can be
>> composed through simple, clean interfaces. For actually getting things
>> done, a toolkit beats a swiss army knife.
>
> Perhaps, but I'm puzzled how that explanation would apply to emacs and
> those who use it as a swiss army knife, doing everything from editing to
> email to laundry in the same editor...
It doesn't. Emacs doesn't follow the Unix way.
> (Note: this isn't a flame about emacs, nor vi for that matter,
> just a discussion about the apparent conflict in the two
> philosophies embodied by the "simple little programs" and the
> "emacs" approaches.)
Who said there wasn't a conflict?
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