Yeah, but it has the virtue of existing, unlike (sadly) Genera.

One of the reasons I like to use stumpwm (c.f. supra) is that I have an always-running Common Lisp process which I can connect to. I have some ideas about how to make it even cooler, but sadly I've not explored them yet.

Emacs isn't just a worse-is-better Lisp machine, it's a worst-is-better one.

Then, you can just think of it as a prototype that just working with text.