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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by a-nikolaev on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @11:40AM (#25659310)
A healthier approach is to have a separate non-Emacs app that can do symbolic integration, which can be run seamlessly from within Emacs.

Otherwise, with all its extensions Emacs starts giving the impression of an Apple-like walled garden, which is not a good comparison for a free software, no?

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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by thotsBgone on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @02:34PM (#25661283)
How is it a walled garden if it's free, open-source software?
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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by a-nikolaev on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:34PM (#25666592)
Emacs is its own ecosystem, you either buy it all, and grow to use it more and more, or don't get to use it all. So in a way it separates itself from the rest of Unix ecosystem.
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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by thotsBgone on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:41PM (#25676172)
Only because much of what emacs does is cumbersome or impossible as regular software.
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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by a-nikolaev on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:10PM (#25677516)
a lock-in is a lock-in, even if with free software, it incurs certain costs on you, even if it provides convenience.
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