From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 13:19:43 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 75BD437B424 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 13:19:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 20405 invoked by uid 100); 21 May 2001 20:19:39 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15113.30811.116486.126146@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 15:19:39 -0500 To: dochawk@psu.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how much ram/cpu/swap to run emacs/xemacs effectively? In-Reply-To: <92655922@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 dochawk@psu.edu types: > 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 . . . What? you mean you don't switch between all three almost at random? Being able to use the best tool for the job is important. I wonder what happened to qed? > 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, While true, it's irrelevant. Emacs is *small* compared to the things one finds running on modern Unix workstations: Netscape, GNOME, KDE, XFree86-4, etc. > tries to do absolutely everything, Tries? Ok, it doesn't run 3d gas flow models very well, but if you've got xemacs, you don't need Netscape, GNOME, KDE, XFree86-4 etc. and it's smaller than them to boot. > and downright hostile to the standards used by everything else . . . Nah, it'll run on Windows as well as Unix. (read mike) -- Mike Meyer 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