Re: Why emacs is so big?

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From: Jason Stokes
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 00:00

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In article <3280a945.6770210@news.wr.com.au>, freemant@wr.com.au (Kent
Tong) wrote:

: Does anyone know why Emacs is so big? The pre-compiled installation
: requires about 15Mb disk space. Is there a real minimum set of files
: that are really necessary to run Emacs to edit normal ASCII text 
: files, C, C++ and Java files? How big is it?

<bigot>
If you wanted a text editor, use that vi concoction!  They didn't call it
Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping for nothing!  Everything but the
kitchen  sink, that's us emacs users motto!
</bigot>

-- 
Jason Stokes: j.stokes@student.anu.edu.au

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