Timeline for Time to drop Emacs and vi?
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| Mar 29, 2014 at 3:30 | comment | added | Stephen C |
@JimBalter - erm yes, but there are still limited situations where the code size of your utilities does matter. And it is not just the main executable. IIRC yum install emacs on basic server install will pull in 30+ Mb of RPMs.
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| Apr 10, 2011 at 21:19 | comment | added | user1249 | When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!! - gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html | |
| Apr 10, 2011 at 21:18 | comment | added | user1249 | Only person? Probably not. Only person doing so voluntarily, probably so. | |
| Apr 5, 2011 at 14:06 | comment | added | David Thornley | After long experience on several different systems with editors named "ed"....I resolved never to use an editor named "ed" ever again. | |
| Apr 5, 2011 at 12:56 | comment | added | Vatine | @Stephen C, my point was, roughly, "you could probably have used vim, with supporting script files, as an equally good example" (or eclipse or anything). | |
| Apr 5, 2011 at 5:48 | history | edited | Stephen C | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Apr 5, 2011 at 5:44 | comment | added | Stephen C | @Vatine - my point is not that emacs is large. My point is that ed is small. I don't need to show how large emacs really is to make that point. | |
| Apr 4, 2011 at 17:00 | comment | added | snakehiss |
+1 for using ed. "When I was growing up we didn't have interactivity and we liked it that way!"
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| Mar 25, 2011 at 13:10 | comment | added | Vatine | Note that pure binary size isn't everything. That emacs binary has quite a lot of its supporting library dumped in, so you may want to compare the size of the full "standard" macro library as well. essays.hexapodia.net/emacs-large is a comparison from 3 years ago | |
| Mar 25, 2011 at 7:46 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki | ||
| Mar 25, 2011 at 7:11 | history | answered | Stephen C | CC BY-SA 2.5 |