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Re:Why Emacs has buffers by wodenokoto on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @09:38AM (#31654109)
I thought eMacs was lisp.
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Re:Why Emacs has buffers by marcus0x62 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @09:43AM (#31654191)
Depends on the Emacs, but GNU Emacs has a low-level core written in C with most high-level functionality implemented in various Elisp packages.
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Re:Why Emacs has buffers by morelisp on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @12:14PM (#31656506)
And to clarify, in Emacs "move the cursor forward one paragraph" or "kill (~cut) this text" counts as high-level functionality.
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Re:Why Emacs has buffers by marcus0x62 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @02:39PM (#31658424)
Sure, I meant things like interfacing with the OS, the Elisp interpreter itself, performance-sensitive tasks like redisplay, etc.
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Re:Why Emacs has buffers by Narishma on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @12:51PM (#31657067)
No, those were just slightly bigger iMacs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac

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Re:Why Emacs has buffers by wodenokoto on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @07:33AM (#31665838)
Ah, that's why my iphone insists on upper casing the M
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