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mrweasel 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-...

I was going to ask. I'm not big on Emacs, but ripping out Lisp isn't that removing the part that makes Emacs Emacs? Like, they removed the important part.

rasur 8 months ago [–]

Pretty much yes. Emacs is basically a Lisp execution environment with a customisable text-editor included.

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