On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:59:00 -0600, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: >> Vim is much smaller than Emacs but it still a few MB's here: >> >> keram...@kobe:/usr/ports/packages/All$ ls -ld vim* >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 5757731 1 Απρ 17:11 vim-lite-7.2.344.tbz > > Does Vim install more than the binary? I've got this: > > > ls -l /usr/local/bin/vim > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1650340 Apr 18 12:20 /usr/local/bin/vim
Yes, it does: help files; syntax highlighting rules; manpages; around 14 binaries in /usr/local/bin; including more than a thousand files in /usr/local/share. > I don't think the size of the installation tarball is necessarily > representative of the final size. For modern editors like Vim and Emacs the binary is pretty much a basic 'scripting engine' that loads plugins, scripts and other data files to present an editing user interface to the user. The last Emacs binary I compiled is 13 MB: keram...@kobe:/opt/emacs/bin$ ls -ld emacs-* -rwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel - 13395130 31 Μαϊ 20:13 emacs-24.0.50 The full Emacs installation in /opt/emacs is more than 110 MB: keram...@kobe:/opt/emacs$ du -sk . 113298 . The binary itself is a small part of the installation; almost 1/10 of the full size of GNU Emacs.
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