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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
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On 07 Jun 2025 10:54:21 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> Or Vim which, unlike Emacs which is a full OS, is only a text editor.

Emacs is an editor of files, not just a text editor. It doesn’t assume 
that the file content has to be broken up into lines.

Also, look at the ways the respective editors can be extended: the vi/vim 
family rely on some kind of simplistic “macro” language for simple 
extensions, while you have to resort to coding in C or like that for more 
complex add-ons. Whereas in Emacs, the same language (ELisp) can do both 
simple things and complex things.