Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 10:14:19 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Strying off topic, but Re: text editor Message-ID: <AANLkTinam4VvfIbf_2zdT87ez8HB3Lpz4hl9y95Cfmu8@mail.gmail.com>
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On 31 May 2010 17:38, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > I meant to reply to the list, as a response to this, but accidentally > replied directly to Giorgos Keramidas. > > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:45:07PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:59:00 -0600, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wr= ote: >> > Does Vim install more than the binary? =A0I've got this: >> > >> > =A0 =A0 > ls -l /usr/local/bin/vim >> > =A0 =A0 -rwxr-xr-x =A01 root =A0wheel =A01650340 Apr 18 12:20 /usr/loc= al/bin/vim >> >> Yes, it does: help files; syntax highlighting rules; manpages; around 14 >> binaries in /usr/local/bin; including more than a thousand files in >> /usr/local/share. > > After some off-list discussion, it has come to my attention that of the > 14 "binaries" that are "installed", one of them is the vim binary itself, > two of them are vimtutor binaries, one is a hex dumper, and the other ten > are links (hard or soft) to the vim binary itself (and thus not actually > separate binaries). =A0It seems kind of silly to include a tutor and a > hexdumper in the "size" of the editor just because the port for that > editor installs them, too. =A0Furthermore, documentation like manpages an= d > help files should not count against an application's size in my opinion, > since more documentation is a *good* thing, and counting it toward the > size of the application is marking it in the *bad* column. > > The grand total size of that hex dumper and two tutor binaries is about > 15KB, by the way -- so even if you include them with the editor for > determining its size, they're still pretty negligible. > > Considering I could just delete all the syntax highlighting files and it > wouldn't even affect the way I use Vim (I tend to prefer monochrome, even > when editing code), I don't realy think I'd count those against the size > of Vim either. > > Vim looks pretty small to me, compared with other editors of similar > power (emacs, GUI IDEs, et cetera). > I don't know much, but the source tarball is slightly over 7m. In any case, the executable size is only loosely related to the actual running size. --=20 --
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