"Internally, Emacs still belives it’s a text program, and we pretend Xt is a text terminal, and we pretend GTK is an Xt toolkit.
It’s a fractal of delusion."
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Frankly, Emacs is a fractal of hacks, but it's incredibly powerful, consistent enough from a user perspective, and usually works, so we tend to ignore it.