But why are you complaining about that. Who told you that it would be a good idea to use Emacs instead of a database? Why did you ever come to that conclusion?
Re:Emacs Is Not Enough
by some-mthfka on Saturday January 14, 2023 @08:32AM
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Because it's often claimed than Emacs can do everything. Or, if not claimed, than assumed. And if not assumed, people go and try to do this stuff anyway. I gave an example of an object-oriented spreadsheet in my article.
You can't stop people from trying, but that's just the wrong paradigm to try those things. My point: we can still have an environment that can do all of these things. Embed a spreadsheet and interface a database textually. Why, is what emacs giving us really the end of it, you think? Because I don't.
You must have misread those claims.
Re:Emacs Is Not Enough
by some-mthfka on Saturday January 14, 2023 @12:17PM
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Yeah, right : D
In any case: there are quite obvious limitations, and, to me, they weren't very apparent when I started out in Emacs.
Exactly, a custom structure, a custom object. That's my point. And that point is: the ability to specialize on custom structures, which are unavoidable if you are to keep your sanity.