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From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Why does emacs do so much that is not editing?
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Date: 18 Aug 89 16:10:52 GMT
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MSW> ..  This seems to be counter to the Unix philosophy of ``a
MSW> tool should do one job and do it well.''

Right. But all tools have a different idea about what is 'well'. So a
single tool with a consistent user interface may be against this
philosophy, but feels better.

	Johan
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