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I've got bad news for you: vim and the other editors you are thinking about also have a core (vim), front end (whatever terminal you use), and a protocol to tal

by Jyaif 9y ago

I've got bad news for you: vim and the other editors you are thinking about also have a core (vim), front end (whatever terminal you use), and a protocol to talk in between them.

vidarh 9y ago
Not just that, but many editors have a client/server architecture for the editor itself as well. Quickly scanning Emacs "NEWS" files, the first mention I found of emacsclient dates back to between '86 and '92. I'm pretty sure it's older. This was added as an option exactly because it is more efficient and leaner to start a separate UI than starting a separate editor instance each time, and adds very little bloat (on my system, emacsclient is a 23KB binary), and it adds so little latency as to not be noticeable.