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by roflyear 1372 days ago
What surprised me about the article was how many features emacs has. Seems they want to do a lot outside of text editing?
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R0flcopt3r 1371 days ago
emacs really is just an interpreter for emacs lisp. it does whatever you program it to do. it happens to come pre-programmed as a text editor from the "factory".

The beauty of emacs is how easy it is to modify it. Lisp is the easiest syntax to learn, emacs hides nothing from the user, and the user can override or add whatever they wish. It really is a proper example of free and open software. To add to this, it's all very well documented, and everything you need to develop (for) emacs is in emacs itself.

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zasdffaa 1372 days ago
If you impose structure on text you can do stuff like org-mode.

If you allow networking, you can do emails like gnus.

If you allow pictures and HTML parsing, you can do a web browser like eww.

I guess you don't have to add too much to get a new domain.

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