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Newer page: version 5 Last edited on Wednesday, December 10, 2003 4:08:12 pm by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:43:25 am by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
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-A programers ' text editor and [IDE ]. See emacs(1).  
+!! ' '[Emacs ] is a nice operating system - it just lacks a good editor .''  
  
-Its icon is a kitchen sink, and there's very good reason for that. It is extensible with its [Elisp ] scripting language, and almost everything you could ever need (including a complete WebBrowser ) has been written in ELisp. Emacs is an editor pretending to be an OperatingSystem
+A programmers' text editor and [IDE ]. See emacs (1 ). 
  
-[Unix ] programmers tend to settle on either Emacs or vi(1) as their main programming environment , then pick on each other for their choices
+Its icon is a kitchen sink, and there's very good reason for that. Its core is an [Elisp ] interpreter which can be used to implement extensions , of which literally hundreds have been written - including a complete WebBrowser, MailClient, NewsReader, and almost anything else you could ever need
  
-''Mandatory quote:''  
-;: ''" [Emacs] is a nice operating system - it just lacks a good editor ."''  
-''--[Aristotle|AristotlePagaltzis] "[Vim] is awesome " [Pagaltzis|AristotlePagaltzis] '' 
+[Unix] programmers tend to settle on either Emacs or [vi|Vim ] as their main programming environment, then pick on each other for their choices .  
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+''"Master, does Emacs have the buddha nature?" "Why not, it has everything else! "''