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Wilfred Hughes
Jun 20, 2018 at 18:04
The Emacs Problem:
https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/the-emacs-problem
A good discussion of lispiness, the inherent structure in many text formats, and editors that are dynamically configurable.
steve yegge - the-emacs-problem
The Emacs Problem Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants™ Charles G. pointed out in an email discussion recently: Lisp still doesn't seem like the right language for doing text manipulation, and nothing I've seen from the Emacs libraries is making me think any differently. It sure beats the hell out of Java