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> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:32:58 +0000 (UTC)
> From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
> 
> Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote
> 
>     I don't see how a video capture program could be considered a
>     model for how a text editor should work. 
> 
> Emacs is much more than a text editor.  It is an integrated
> environment

That's true, but whatever Emacs feature you use, you mostly deal with
text, be it a program source, an email message, a directory listing,
or a C++ class tree.  So I think Jason's is a perfectly valid
argument.