Does anyone know where the saying: "Emacs is a lisp compiler cosplaying as a text editor" comes from?#emacs

[fffluoride@mathstodon.xyz]

Does anyone know where the saying: "Emacs is a lisp compiler cosplaying as a text editor" comes from?
#emacs

[mina@berlin.social]

@fffluoride

That sound pretty much like some usenet folklore.

[discobeez@mas.to]

@fffluoride isn't that just an accurate description?

[bhaugland@mastodon.social]

@fffluoride the other part of that is that eMacs would be a great operating system if someone would write a decent text editor for it

[alanbuxey@freeradical.zone]

@fffluoride I think that's been paraphrased, think the original was more like "Emacs is not a text editor, it's a Lisp interpreter that happens to edit text" and I think it was Richard Stallman who said it or framed the conversation into those words.

[fffluoride@mathstodon.xyz]

@alanbuxey Ah, that does make more sense