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by the-dude 2063 days ago
It ain't done before it can receive e-mail.
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It can receive email. See my follow-up here with a working implementation:

https://github.com/clopen/xpath-receive-email

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24960548

Hahah, that just really got carried away. Ok, any idea if there is replacement? I found version 1 useful for scrapping web sites. Or should I just stick with 1.0 ?
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
I was going to suggest Vim as a counterexample, but sure enough https://github.com/soywod/iris.vim
That's a community based plugin, Vim is still focused on text editing and not much else.
Most of the functionality on the editors like vim and emacs comes from community based plugins. People would mostly not use them if there were no such expansions.
This baseless assertion is simply wrong. Plugins are nice to have, but the bulk of their use is to customize default installs.