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tjradcliffe on Dec 15, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stack Exchange for Emacs

Emacs makes complex things possible and simple things hard: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=74

That post is the fifth most popular thing on my blog, all from search-hits looking for how to count words in Emacs.

chongli on Dec 15, 2014 [–]

What's your definition of simple, in this case? A million different users want a million different simple things. An editor that gives all of these functions equal weight is not an editor anyone would want to use.

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