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From: jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Tradeoffs
Message-ID: <jkrueger.644797068@dgis.dtic.dla.mil>
Date: 7 Jun 90 22:17:48 GMT
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chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:

>GNU Emacs ... shows no signs of the Software Tools "do one thing well"
>philosophy.

Counterexample: its spell checker pipes the buffer through
spell and parses the output.  Counterexample: its compile mode
execs the make command and parses the output.  Counterexample:
a general facility for piping buffer regions through other
tools and returning the output in another buffer.  I use this
all the time for awking pieces of text.

-- Jon
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