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From: fox@cs.cs.columbia.edu (David Fox)
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Subject: Re: Why does emacs do so much that is not editing?
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Date: 23 Aug 89 14:58:17 GMT
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In-reply-to: cooper@vlab.enet.dec.com's message of 23 Aug 89 02:20:41 GMT

While the origional poster was quite open-minded, I am surprised
at how many people are upset by the notion of an editor doing
things previous editors have not done.  I would have thought that
in a field as new and rapidly changing as computer software people
would have an understanding that the labels they give to things,
such as "editor", "shell", "word-processor", "database manager" do
not refer to immutable concepts but are just temporary labels we
use to refer to software systems whose actual function is
continuously evolving.

David Fox
fox@cs.columbia.edu

(Am I supposed to mail this somewhere rather than post it?
 That information does not seem to be available to me.)