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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 01:14:36 -0400
> Cc: colinetnathan98@gmail.com, andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> I designed Emacs to be a text editor.
> 
> I am disappointed that people extend Emacs ONLY to do other unrelated
> jobs while NOT extending the kinds of text editing it will do.

If you mean "text" literally, then you may be right.  But if you
include in that editing of program sources, then I'd say we are
definitely making progress in that area, albeit slower than we would
want to.