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I'm saying it's not because it has stuff like text editor, games even email client built-in (need confirmation never seriously used emacs), if it's only a scripting + text UI engine and offering all other apps as optional plugins then I'd agree it's "doing one thing".

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> games even email client built-in

These are plugins which are loaded on demand. So if you never use them, then they are not loaded into the platform.

I'd say facilities for text editing (buffers, kill rings, etc.) are built in, but nearly everything else -- the different modes for programming languages, games, mail, web, and IRC clients, etc, are all in Emacs Lisp.

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