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Re: Too fine design granularity leads to numerous macro/function/command


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Too fine design granularity leads to numerous macro/function/command existed in Emacs.
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 10:47:05 +0300

> From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:25:36 +0800
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 3:19 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 14:29:38 +0800
> > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> > >
> > > > The low-level infrastructure of the Lisp machine
> > >
> > > IMO, by saying ``Lisp machine'', it always means the operating system
> > > is written in lisp, but this is obviously not the case of Emacs.
> >
> > No, I meant the Lisp machine that is part of Emacs core.  IOW, the
> > Emacs Lisp interpreter and bytecode-running code.
> 
> Can these components be called a ``Lisp machine''? I mean, if without
> the OS it runs on, it can also be called a ``machine''?

Well, that's what I call them.



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