Emacs is a more usable interface to all those methods of composition than, say, a terminal emulator. Take dired for example; it presents the verbatim output of the ls command but allows me to interact with it in a much smoother way to rename, copy, and run arbitrary shell commands on them.
Why is it acceptable to compose simple modular tools in a bash script but not in an Emacs script?
Why is it acceptable to compose simple modular tools in a bash script but not in an Emacs script?