Re: Lightweight Emacs for container?

2024-05-06 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 04:19:32PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Is there some package, or a simple workaround, that will allow me to use > > a basic Emacs without all the cruft? > > I think the usual answers look like: > > - Use Zile (or some other small Emacs-inspired editor). > - Use Tramp

Re: Lightweight Emacs for container?

2024-05-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 6:45 PM Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > I usually use Emacs on full-blown Debian distributions, so I don't pay > much attention to how large it is. But I'm now starting to > play around with lightweight LXC containers, obviously headless, and would > like to keep using

Re: Lightweight Emacs for container?

2024-05-06 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 6 May 2024 16:19 -0400, from monn...@iro.umontreal.ca (Stefan Monnier): >> Is there some package, or a simple workaround, that will allow me to use >> a basic Emacs without all the cruft? > > I think the usual answers look like: > > - Use Zile (or some other small Emacs-inspired editor). mg

Re: Lightweight Emacs for container?

2024-05-06 Thread David Wright
On Mon 06 May 2024 at 19:37:39 (+), Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > I usually use Emacs on full-blown Debian distributions, so I don't pay much > attention to how large it is. But I'm now starting to > play around with lightweight LXC containers, obviously headless, and would > like to keep

Re: Lightweight Emacs for container?

2024-05-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Is there some package, or a simple workaround, that will allow me to use > a basic Emacs without all the cruft? I think the usual answers look like: - Use Zile (or some other small Emacs-inspired editor). - Use Tramp (i.e. run Emacs outside the container and access the container's files as a

Lightweight Emacs for container?

2024-05-06 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I usually use Emacs on full-blown Debian distributions, so I don't pay much attention to how large it is. But I'm now starting to play around with lightweight LXC containers, obviously headless, and would like to keep using Emacs in these, but just for basic text editing and so forth, I don't