From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 20 22:13:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5B8037B424 for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 22:13:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 26442 invoked by uid 100); 21 May 2001 05:13:51 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15112.41999.587043.997433@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 00:13:51 -0500 To: j mckitrick Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how much ram/cpu/swap to run emacs/xemacs effectively? In-Reply-To: <87062509@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG j mckitrick types: > All holy wars aside, what do i need to run xemacs effectively? Or, if > someone can convince me xemacs is a waste of time and i should be learning > gnu emacs, what would be the answer to the question applied to gnu emacs? I prefer xemacs to gnu emacs. If you can run Netscape effectively - even the stripped-down Navigator version - you can run either one effectively. No, that's not right - even if you *can't* run NN effectively, you can run either one effectively, as they don't require an X environment to run in, and your X environment is liable to take more resources than emacs. I'd say that you can probably run it on anything you can install FreeBSD on, if you run it outside of X. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message