From: "Charles philip Chan" <cpchan@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: `woman' can't be used outside emacs?
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:08:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7p11xja.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> (raw)
In-Reply-To: emda48$oos$1@news.yaako.com
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-21 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-20 9:31 `woman' can't be used outside emacs? Ronald
2006-12-20 10:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2136.1166611461.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-20 11:42 ` Ronald
2006-12-21 6:37 ` Ronald
2006-12-21 8:08 ` Charles philip Chan [this message]
2006-12-21 17:34 ` Tim X
2006-12-23 12:35 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-12-24 4:33 ` Tim Cross
2006-12-26 0:09 ` Dieter Wilhelm
[not found] ` <mailman.2360.1167104996.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-26 4:37 ` Tim X
[not found] ` <mailman.2243.1166877340.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-27 10:24 ` LEE Sau Dan
2006-12-21 17:40 ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-21 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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