>>> As for your editor, does it have a kill circular ring to quickly and
>>> conveniently select latest extracted text entries?
>
>> No. But neither does Emacs.
>
>    So Emacs has an elisp interpreted that can be used basically for anything
> that you could ever imagine doing to text. Except having a circular kill
> ring, it appears. At least according to you.

Emacs has a circular kill ring, it's true. I would dispute that it's 
/convenient/ though.

>>> Does it have parametrized macros to quickly generate text from templates?
>
>> No. For that, I use a real programming language.
>
>    When you want to edit a text file, you write a separate program to do
> that?

No. When I want to generate large chunks of text programatically, I 
write a program. (As you can probably tell, this isn't something I need 
to do very often.)

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