From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Charles philip Chan" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: `woman' can't be used outside emacs? Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:08:25 -0500 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: <87y7p11xja.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166690467 6006 80.91.229.10 (21 Dec 2006 08:41:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:41:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 21 09:41:04 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GxJU3-0006Kg-Dl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:40:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxJU2-0006ZM-QQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:40:58 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!aioe.org!MagnumOpus.khem!news Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: xVyl3joQDa76ozPzgli9qQ.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Face: G; Z,`sm>)4t4LB/GUrgH$W`!AmfHMj,LG)Z}X0ax@s9:0>0)B&@vcm{v-le)wng)?|o]D\Z}0:6X Cancel-Lock: sha1:2vY6hqmGg55YUIaQieWoE8UKLXg= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144194 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39797 Archived-At: On 21 Dec 2006, followait@163.com wrote: > Emacs tries to do almost everything when it is possible. > I can't understand why it does this way. It doesn't make sense if you think of Emacs as just a text editor. A more helpful way is to think of Emacs as a LISP machine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine which specializes in manipulating text streams. In fact this is how Emacs was designed. It consists of a small core (LISP interpretor and functions where speed is essential) that is written in C. The rest is implemented in Emacs LISP. Charles -- panic ("Splunge!"); linux-2.2.16/drivers/scsi/psi240i.c