On Sunday 19 October 2003 01:29 am, David Walser wrote:
> 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?
you are very sadly mistaken here. The majority or regular windows converts
could care less about about emacs. Much less would they be able to figure out
how to use the thing properly. AS for mc every sysadmin I show it to uses
it. It is way more useful in the real world than emacs. Especially for system
recovery. It is kind of like an all in one tool for when things go bad. I
even use it allot under normal conditions to install rpm's. Especially when
the system is hosed and there is not other way to install them. Emacs will
not do that for me.
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