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Re:Ask HN: What is a good scriptable text editor by im_down_w_otp on Friday January 08, 2016 @11:22PM (#10870086)
Emacs. The whole thing is a bunch of running scripts, and you can manipulate all of it almost an way that you like. Add your own, muck with the ones that are there, even screw with things that are actively running.
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Re:Ask HN: What is a good scriptable text editor by maybeok on Saturday January 09, 2016 @01:27PM (#10872254)
Emacs is nice way to discover live-action coding against a running process. Design time, dev-time, compile-time, and run-time all mesh into one.

Everybody needs to give a live-action language like Smalltalk or lisp a try at least once.

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