Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Why does emacs do so much that is not editing? Message-ID:Date: 15 Aug 89 21:01:44 GMT References: <19115@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu> Reply-To: Bob Sutterfield Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 7 In-reply-to: msw@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu's message of 14 Aug 89 01:13:09 GMT In article <19115@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu> msw@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Matt S Wartell) writes: ...emacs attempts to do everything... This seems to be counter to the Unix philosophy of ``a tool should do one job and do it well.'' Perhaps you're looking at it wrong - each elisp package is a tool, and does its single job well. Emacs is just the Lisp interpreter and user interface veneer that provides a common way to get to them all.