Re: Why emacs is so big?

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From: Huw Davies
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 00:00

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Jason Stokes (j.stokes@student.anu.edu.au) wrote:

: <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>

I'm sure that the latest version will have a kitchen sink (and dishwasher)
option :-)

I quite like emacs but just can't afford the memory on most of the systems
I use to run it...
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