Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:05:19 +0300 (IDT)
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Subject: Re: Kinda OT--newsreader and mail client suggestions?
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On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Charles Krug wrote:

> Endlisnis wrote:
> 
> >     Well, Emacs & XEmacs have news/mail readers.  What "features" of Netscape
> > bother you?
> 
> Feature creep.  Like some editors that keep piling on features that really don't
> have anything to do with "editing."  Offends me for philosophical reasons

What's wrong with having a single working environment where you can do 
almost all the day-to-day chores a programmer needs to do, and have a 
coherent interface to every feature?  I think that this is an advantage, 
not a disadvantage.

Emacs is a programmer's environment, not an editor.