Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 20:48:22 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text editor Message-ID: <87zkzgx8rd.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <201005311636.o4VGarkt001701@mail.r-bonomi.com> (Robert Bonomi's message of "Mon, 31 May 2010 11:36:53 -0500 (CDT)") References: <201005311636.o4VGarkt001701@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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--=-=-= On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:36:53 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >> 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* That's an old joke, but it's not particularly good anymore. The smallest laptop-size 2.5" SATA disk I have at home can hold more than 80 GB of data. The size of a program is now a limiting factor only if you are working with embedded applications. Normal, every-day computers have enough disk space to hold tens of thousands of full Emacs installations even without any sort of compression :-) --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkwD9mcACgkQ1g+UGjGGA7Z7bwCeKzW8wxVQyVkZOCHPMJLjJW2d 6+oAnRcp080G+vBTdqYU9Fms1kCqc9WC =5eXc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--
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