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		obviouslygreen on May 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poll: Which is your primary text editor? And in the same way that a car includes many control interfaces but is not itself a control interface, a program that contains text editors is not itself a text editor.

epsylon on May 20, 2013 [–]

Well, Emacs isn't a text editor then.

snotrockets on May 20, 2013 | [–]

Of course it isn't. Emacs is an OS, it just needs an inferior OS to bootstrap it

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