From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 8:23:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1228C37B422 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 08:23:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4LFKj510712; Mon, 21 May 2001 11:20:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105211520.f4LFKj510712@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: j mckitrick Cc: dochawk@psu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how much ram/cpu/swap to run emacs/xemacs effectively? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 May 2001 15:50:34 BST." <20010521155033.A81154@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:20:45 -0400 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 jonathon jubilated, :) > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:34:31AM -0400, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > | Jonathon jib ed > | > All holy wars aside, what do i need to run xemacs effectively? > | But, but . . . :) > Feel free to insert your editor of choice. :) We'll leave the One True Editor out of this :) Besides, I've wimped out and used its visual descendant . . . > | As a general rule for any version of emacs, ever since first released, > | find out how much memory the largest machine shipping at the time of > | its releease could possibly have, then double. Once it was only > | *Eight* Megs And Constant Swapping . . . > Yes, i know. :) But i've been told by many people whom i greatly respect > that i should give it a try. I saw a quote recently > You can't really hate something so powerful and flexible as Emacs, > despite its bloat. I dunno. I can hate it and still use it occasionally :) > So, i decided to find out for myself. I am fascinated by the lisp concept, > and how stable the system is as a result. Actually, that stability is the only thing I find that distinguishes it from microsoft products--it has the rest of the characteristics: bloated beyond machine resources, tries to do absolutely everything, and downright hostile to the standards used by everything else . . . But it can indent my Fortan 95 as I write it, which vim doesn't do yet . . . -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message