From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 10 problems with Elisp, part 10 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 21:28:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87sevj9b50.fsf@jeremybryant.net> <871q33rj7v.fsf@dataswamp.org> <86ed73qhly.fsf@gnu.org> <87frrjoryg.fsf_-_@dataswamp.org> <86wmkuq60j.fsf@gnu.org> <87a5hqq4v3.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87mslqes7m.fsf@web.de> <874j7ypvr4.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87mslqceby.fsf@web.de> <86bk25q33b.fsf@gnu.org> <87o7611fi6.fsf@dataswamp.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22051"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 13 03:29:26 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sdgLk-0005UE-Sr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:29:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sdgKv-00072V-JX; Mon, 12 Aug 2024 21:28:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sdgKu-00072B-8c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2024 21:28:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sdgKt-00061g-Sh; Mon, 12 Aug 2024 21:28:31 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=vI/tZm2SjhNOoqjlmLpbyVsSbeoeSuJxrQY5WK8d8tk=; b=O/6PqDdAwojR txDnCb5C3ky47M3PgXCIHTqKxxFEm5lVKFVM7j4vdBHjLNRmL97LaM63QbGX3704qcGCpqjqTPUrP +6xVjtjbquwMmPaT42Mn/YC7hcQi9lKT4x+RWAIhy/nRHfm8FDhirdzbABLzYSgyLZr6S9zWIikVR tw2h9wMgbe0nPezzkWqlwW8mSBk0KJe7cJWdjuxu7riiIa3jpxG4ZMX8Y7L4r9vY0g1UElr23yM3R Is1EcsG9fjYKAm/TgolcSgegmW1zXA3Bb71oQPyGBiYyr9x3E1D1ZucDGm1s16VdOAsgUsLIqsf2M JkJ7aVc6BqXBZFBBpnFoBg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sdgKt-0000zG-99; Mon, 12 Aug 2024 21:28:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87o7611fi6.fsf@dataswamp.org> (message from Emanuel Berg on Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:46:25 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:322685 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The buffer is good for editing text and can be used for > various purposes, but for computing as in data-processing in > general, you don't want to retrieve and insert data with > editing commands in a buffer. Emacs is intended for text editing and designed for text editing. If you want to use Emacs to do something else, and use a different data structure, you have strings, lists, vectors, symbols and hash tables to work with. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)