Re: `woman' can't be used outside emacs?

[Charles philip Chan]

On 21 Dec 2006, followait@163.com wrote:

> Emacs tries to do almost everything when it is possible.
> I can't understand why it does this way.

It doesn't make sense if you think of Emacs as just a text editor. A
more helpful way is to think of Emacs as a LISP machine:

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

which specializes in manipulating text streams. In fact this is how
Emacs was designed. It consists of a small core (LISP interpretor and
functions where speed is essential) that is written in C. The rest is
implemented in Emacs LISP.

Charles  

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