Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs

[T.V Raman]

Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> writes:


The assertion that it's so because all they had then was text is
seriously short-changing and even somewhat insulting to the thought that
has likely gone into Emacs' design --- folks like RMS can likely speak
to that more than I can.

But Emacs does an outstanding job of separating content from
presentation, has an embedded lisp machine, and enables that lisp
machine to manipulate all information/content that flows through Emacs.


>> Emacs works with graphical toolkits on all major platforms, but also
>> offers a almost-feature-complete text interface.
>
> Emacs is a manifestation of the ITS user interfaces.  They all relied on
> text because that's all that was available back then.  They also used
> control characters, Altmode/Escape/Meta, and prefix arguments.
>
>> I am seeing Emacs as a platform to write "apps" in Emacs Lisp.
>
> In this sense, Emacs is a Lisp machine.  Not surprisingly, those came
> from the same place as ITS: the MIT AI Lab.
>
>

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