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Re: [comp.emacs] "Emacs" defined in Collins English Dictionary
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Gian Uberto Lauri |
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Re: [comp.emacs] "Emacs" defined in Collins English Dictionary |
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Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:49:05 +0200 |
>>>>> "RJC" == Robert J Chassell <address@hidden> writes:
RJC> Emacs is an editor ... At some point, an `editor' ceases to
Nope. Emacs can do it, but doesn't do it.
I think that even Microsoft Word could be programmed to do such things
but I' pretty sure that nobody would call it anithing else than word
mangleprocessor.
RJC> People like RMS do not see any difference between changing a file
RJC> name and changing a word within that file, but others do.
They see the difference IMHO. They understand that they are just
specializations of altering information.
RJC> When
RJC> you speak the word `editor' and wish to communicate, you must
RJC> either tell your listener that you are using an uncommon
RJC> definition,
I tell them I use an uncommon Editor, that's true.
RJC> As written, the definition misleads people into thinking that
RJC> Emacs falls into the same category as VI or Notepad.
<kidding>
Putting vi side by side with notepad is unfair to vi. While is
notorious that vi is penance, notepad is almost useless. Therefore vi
is much more useful.
</kidding>
vi is a powerful editor I'm not comfortable with unless for the
shortest and quickest tasks. Anyway, using vi and (a lot of) shell
scripts you can implement an Emacs.
RJC> Yes, indeed. That does not means that Emacs is not an integrated
RJC> envirnonment;
Emacs can turn into a sort of integrated environment by loading the
appropriate modules (auctex, jdee), but after all is an editor that
does much more than other editors do and often by delegating the work
to external programs.
It's a sort of integrating editor more than an integrated environment
(or collection of integrated environments). Something that could be as
extensible as Emacs could be Eclipse. That's an integrated environment
that does it all.
But Emacs does editing. If you want it does tetris, but it's goal is
to edit and to do it in the most productive way, often doing it for
you.
The editing capabilities of Emacs are so powerful that you can put
them behind its ability to integrate other software work. That's why I
disagree with you.
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Re: [comp.emacs] "Emacs" defined in Collins English Dictionary, Kevin Rodgers, 2005/06/15