[cwlb]

example?

[stevekemp]

A web-browser inside your editor?

A mail client inside your editor?

The ability to make HTTP-requests, parse their results, and format the results inside your existing editor window?

[reeses]

Editor? I do not think that word means what you think it means!

Emacs is an abstraction layer for a non-preemptively threaded virtual machine, one application of which involves editing text, sound, video, images, etc.

[aerique]

You forgot the web server :-) http://emacswiki.org/emacs/Elnode