To be honest, though, the graphics support in emacs is still pretty utilitarian. There's a lot less graphical "glitz" than there is "if emacs support for this feature didn't handle graphics, I would need to find some other program that does."
There's a bit of that, but for me the key would be e-mail. It's a thoroughly "text-y" application, but not being able to handle inline pictures would be a problem for me at this point.
The "operating system in disguise" idea is an increasingly minority view these days, primarily because Emacs is single-threaded. It does a lot of things, but the ones that aren't text-oriented are generally implemented by calling out to an external program -- in a separate task if appropriate.
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Date: 2008-01-08 03:22 pm (UTC)The "operating system in disguise" idea is an increasingly minority view these days, primarily because Emacs is single-threaded. It does a lot of things, but the ones that aren't text-oriented are generally implemented by calling out to an external program -- in a separate task if appropriate.