[criddell]

I've always wondered how Emacs fits with Unix philosophy? With it you can replace strings AND browse the web, but also play games, do file management, email, chat, etc...

[jonjacky]

Emacs doesn't really fit with the Unix philosophy. Emacs came from the MIT AI Lab and ITS, not Bell Labs and Unix - it got included with most Unix distributions later.

Editors that do fit with the Unix philosophy (they were written by its original developers) are ed sam and acme.

[pzone]

It does one thing and does it well: an interactive Lisp runtime ;)

(Actually, most of the individual applications you're thinking about are these days provided through an Emacs package system.)

[veddox]

That is something that got even ESR wondering - chief "Unix philosophy"-advocate and Emacs patriot par excellence that he is...

(Although one thing that can be said for Emacs as regards the Unix philosophy is that it is programmable.)

[splawn]

It fits the same way a shell does.