Dude, I get what you're saying, but you're like a guy who comments on a Facebook picture of a newborn with 'The reason you think he's cute is purely evolutionary.'
Yes, of course emacs is a big REPL optimised text processing. But it's optimised for text processing because…it started out as a text editor.
The whole point of what I wrote is that emacs started out as a simple text editor (yes, I'm aware that its origin was as text editing macros for TECO) and due to its extensibility it can and has become so much more.
Really, I think you got way too hung up on the word 'just.'
We both love emacs. We both love having a fully-extensible text editing environment.
I just wanted to clarify in case someone read your comments and have a wrong impression that Emacs is a text editor like Vim. Nothing more, nothing less.
Yes, of course emacs is a big REPL optimised text processing. But it's optimised for text processing because…it started out as a text editor.
The whole point of what I wrote is that emacs started out as a simple text editor (yes, I'm aware that its origin was as text editing macros for TECO) and due to its extensibility it can and has become so much more.
Really, I think you got way too hung up on the word 'just.'
We both love emacs. We both love having a fully-extensible text editing environment.