Brook Humphrey wrote: >> Ouch. What's taking so much space? > > stupid emacs and xemacs and all the assorted packages. No real users use these
Well you can't not have emacs, but I agree we could ditch xemacs. The only reason for ever having it was syntax highlighting in the nice GUI, and regular emacs has had syntax highlight support even in the console since 21.1, so there's no reason to even use a GUI now. > out there it is more of a developer odity (as not all developers use this > thing either). Not only that but truly useful packages such as midnight > commander (when I select console tools) and gvim are not even installed. I'm LOL, those are the oddities. I guarantee those have significantly fewer users. > not sure if they are even on the cd's as I havn't even managed to get them > downloaded yet and am still using my custom cd's from cooker after it was > frozen for the cd's. These two are only about 5 or 6 megs together at the > most compared to probably close to 100 megs for emacs including all it's > assorted packages. > > I am not a vim versus emacs person really but I do have a few 150 meg text > files I open and read at times and vim is the only thing under linux that > even manages to open the file relatively well. Everything else gets dicy at > about 80megs. Emacs wont even begin to touch the thing. The only other > program i have found to open it with is a little windows text editor that is > not free. I think it was texedit. Did you try the MS-DOS Editor?
