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Luke Kanies writes: > I don't know, man; I'm not sure anyone with emacs installed gets to > complain about applications wasting a lot of space... 140MB for an > editor? Not really -- 140MB for a package containing an editor with most of its source code, plus a large number of add-on packages, some of which are large anyway, and all of which also include source. (Or at least, the Emacs I've got on my own Mac looks like that.) So, yes, it's hateful that installing Emacs needs 140MB, but it's the packager's fault, not the application's. For comparison, the minimal Emacs 21 packages on Debian Sarge for i386 have a combined installed-size of 6242KB, which does sound much more reasonable. BTW, on my Sarge laptop, when I compare Vim 6.3 and GNU Emacs 21.4.1, I find the following: Command VSZ RSS Estimated time to start gvim -i NONE -u NONE -U NONE 20000 11156 1500ms emacs21 -q --no-site-file 13040 8080 800ms The VSZ and RSS are according to 'ps u', and the estimated time to start is the gap between hitting Enter on the command line, and having a window ready to type at, as estimated subjectively by me. Of course, this is somewhat off-topic, as I can't currently muster up much hate at all for either editor. Doubtless that will change soon enough... -- Aaron CraneThere's stuff above here
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