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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?
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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
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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.