Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
>> Cc: Jorgen Schaefer <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:06:16 +0000
>> 
>> The difference between Emacs and GDB is, I think, that GDB is all quite
>> low-level. Emacs covers a lot more ground from the C guts, to the user
>> facing code and documentation.
>
> The same is true for GDB: it is a complete program, and includes both
> low-level stuff, and user interaction and documentation.


GDB has an interface for interacting with programmers. Emacs is a text
editor; I think that there are some people using it just because of
org-mode. So, different things, I think.

Phil