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From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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Subject: Re: text editor
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org  Mon May 31 00:10:28 2010
> From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 08:10:03 +0300
> Subject: Re: text editor
>
> On Sun, 30 May 2010 17:28:27 -0600, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> >On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:31:59PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >> If you don't mind the size of the respective packages, both VIM and
> >> GNU Emacs have support for many features that ee(1) lacks.
> >
> > I'm not sure why you mentioned the size of Vim here as if it's a
> > remarkably large piece of software.  It *barely* doesn't fit on a 3.5"
> > floppy when you use a full install of the console-based Vim editor.
> > I'm pretty sure it's under 2 MB.
>
> Vim is much smaller than Emacs but it still a few MB's here:
>
>   keramida@kobe:/usr/ports/packages/All$ ls -ld vim*
>   -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 5757731  1 =CE=91=CF=80=CF=81 17:11 vim-lite=
> -7.2.344.tbz

Yeah, but EMACS is (currently) reputed to stand for <E>ighty <M>egabytes <A>nd 
<C>onstantly <S>wapping!    *GRIN*

I can't get at my FBSD box right now to check vim itself, but on another box,
'nvi' (which is described as a "bug-for-bug compatible replacement for the 
original Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD) vi", has an executable
that is under 256k in size.