Yes, Emacs is very light-weight no matter what you're doing. Although I must admit that my copy is using 3.45GB of memory at the moment; I opened a 1.8GB tar fi

Yes, Emacs is very light-weight no matter what you're doing. Although I must admit that my copy is using 3.45GB of memory at the moment; I opened a 1.8GB tar file... that was on a remote machine.