Re: Emacs not configurable enough? (was Re: bug?)

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From: Chet Ramey
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 1990 19:32

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In article <10278@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes:

>People like Rob Pike (of Bell Labs) can very effectively argue why 
>things *should not* be extensible.

It seems to me that Rob does not argue against extensibility in general,
but rather for the `tools approach'.  Things are extensible, but they are
`environmentally extensible' -- you can combine programs in novel ways to
extend the basic functionality, but the programs themselves are small,
fixed, and non-extensible.

Besides, GNU Emacs is a lifestyle :-)

Chet

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