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Not to be rude but Electron apps' level of footprint has always been a compromise and should not be used to justify extraneous resource usage. Emacs must be abl

Not to be rude but Electron apps' level of footprint has always been a compromise and should not be used to justify extraneous resource usage. Emacs must be able to run from the console and resource-constrained systems like AWS instances, where 5mb of RAM can make a difference.

AceJohnny2 9y ago
Remember when people joked that EMACS stood for "Eats Memory And CPU Superbly?" And then each generation reinvents its state-of-the-art abstracted memory hog... Edit: more jokes, from 1985: https://github.com/sbp/lemacs/blob/master/etc/emacs.names https://github.com/sbp/lemacs/blob/master/etc/emacs.names
- s_kilk 9y ago
  Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping
  - kazinator 9y ago
    Precisely relevant to the issue at hand: Eight Megs Ain't Comfortable Stack
craftkiller 9y ago
If 5mb of ram makes the difference wouldn't that be the time to try mg[1] or edit remotely using tramp? Certainly agree that Electron should not be used as a justification. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mg_(editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mg_(editor)
- defgeneric 9y ago
  As of late I've been using `emacs --daemon=some-name` on instances. I attach with `emacs-client -s some-name -t` after I ssh in and detach with `C-x 5-0`. Sometimes I'll run multiple named emacs daemons. This has worked really well to keep persistent independent workspaces on remote instances. Tramp was always a headache and running emacs in screen tends to introduce terminal color and keybinding problems.
- nerdponx 9y ago
  How does mg differ from Emacs proper?
  - msds 9y ago
    It's a text editor, not a lisp environment that edits text. I once had a decent amount of fun splicing it with Lua, before deciding that I don't actually care about text editors...
cwyers 9y ago
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Remote-Files.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Re...

AceJohnny2 9y ago

Remember when people joked that EMACS stood for "Eats Memory And CPU Superbly?" And then each generation reinvents its state-of-the-art abstracted memory hog... Edit: more jokes, from 1985: https://github.com/sbp/lemacs/blob/master/etc/emacs.names https://github.com/sbp/lemacs/blob/master/etc/emacs.names

s_kilk 9y ago
Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping
- kazinator 9y ago
  Precisely relevant to the issue at hand: Eight Megs Ain't Comfortable Stack

craftkiller 9y ago

If 5mb of ram makes the difference wouldn't that be the time to try mg[1] or edit remotely using tramp? Certainly agree that Electron should not be used as a justification. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mg_(editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mg_(editor)

defgeneric 9y ago
As of late I've been using `emacs --daemon=some-name` on instances. I attach with `emacs-client -s some-name -t` after I ssh in and detach with `C-x 5-0`. Sometimes I'll run multiple named emacs daemons. This has worked really well to keep persistent independent workspaces on remote instances. Tramp was always a headache and running emacs in screen tends to introduce terminal color and keybinding problems.
nerdponx 9y ago
How does mg differ from Emacs proper?
- msds 9y ago
  It's a text editor, not a lisp environment that edits text. I once had a decent amount of fun splicing it with Lua, before deciding that I don't actually care about text editors...

cwyers 9y ago

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Remote-Files.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Re...