Re: Is there a way to create a stripped-down version of Windows GNU Emacs?

2020-03-25 Thread John J . Xenakis
Hi David, > Is there any way to obtain or create a stripped-down version of > Windows GNU Emacs? > What I'm looking for: > * Full support for basic EmacsLisp programming > * All the basic editor commands and defuns (moving, selecting, etc.) > * Support for windows, buffers, and files

Re: Is there a way to create a stripped-down version of Windows GNU Emacs?

2020-03-25 Thread John J . Xenakis
Dear David, > Unfortunately, I had already looked into Emacs extensions to > provide project maintenance, and what I found would have taken me > more time to modify than if I started from scratch and wrote my > own emacslisp. And I could not find any indexed outline (as in > NoteTab) ext

Re: Is there a way to create a stripped-down version of Windows GNU Emacs?

2020-03-25 Thread Robert Lerche
I enthusiastically concur with John Xenakis' recommendations. I was a vi user for years until a colleague I respected said to me one day, "you *have* to learn emacs". Once I started there was no going back. Emacs Lisp takes a bit of getting used to but it is worth the effort. I have carried my

Re: Is there a way to create a stripped-down version of Windows GNU Emacs?

2020-03-25 Thread Juan José García-Ripoll
To complement what others have said, I am currently running one instance of Emacs that handles my mail, programming Emacs itself, an org-mode database, my calendar and various notes in unter 160Mb RAM. Perceived size may be large because the distributed package looks large, but much of it is docum