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The emacs that I installed in vanilla Slackware back in '95 seemed plenty super-bloated to me. That's why I learned vi. It took me a long time to even conside

The emacs that I installed in vanilla Slackware back in '95 seemed plenty super-bloated to me. That's why I learned vi. It took me a long time to even consider that new-fangled 'vim' thing.

mschaef 10y ago
Well, Emacs did stand for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping", after all...
- bostand 10y ago
  ... how much memory does atom use for editing a 1kb file?
  - Qwertious 10y ago
    The question is, how much does vim use editing anything. IIRC the vim-runtime takes up a whole lot more than 8MB nowadays. It's a seriously weird argument.