Re:Emacs is Dead (2010)
by hollerith on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @05:57PM
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>the conventional wisdom that "Emacs is a good operating system, it just needs a decent text editor".
If that's the conventional wisdom, it is not particularly wise.
Emacs is much more like a Unix shell than any operating system I have ever heard of. Specifically, both Emacs and the shell fork and exec other programs a lot; a significant fraction of those programs communicate with Emacs or the shell via a PTY or a Unix pipe. In contrast, Eclipse does very little of those two things, according to the OP.
If that's the conventional wisdom, it is not particularly wise.
Emacs is much more like a Unix shell than any operating system I have ever heard of. Specifically, both Emacs and the shell fork and exec other programs a lot; a significant fraction of those programs communicate with Emacs or the shell via a PTY or a Unix pipe. In contrast, Eclipse does very little of those two things, according to the OP.