From: David Gudeman
Subject: Re: Structure vs. text editors
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1987 21:38:36 +0000
Message-ID: <3210@megaron.arizona.edu>

In article  <···@klipper.cs.vu.nl> ····@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) writes:
>Just try, in whatever programmable text editor you want, to edit
>the code of the editor itself, implementing new commands, and use
>each command in the same session immediately after its code is
>edited in.
>That's the difference between text and structure editors: whether
>the thing which is changing is "the real thing" or a text copy.

I do that all the time in GNU Emacs (a programmable text editor).
What's the big deal?