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I wonder if you could run modern Vim/Emacs or if even they are too resource hungry by now.
by idontwantthis 4y ago
I wonder if you could run modern Vim/Emacs or if even they are too resource hungry by now.
- chongli 4y agoYou could totally run them on an early 90’s PC. Just don’t try to use autocomplete plugins or anything else that needs to hook into every character insertion event. Also I would imagine git (and hence magit) would run pretty slow on an old PC due to all the hashing, but I think it would still be usable. Also you’d want to avoid loading too many plugins all at once, due to limited RAM, but that should be obvious as well.
- pmontra 4y agoVanilla Vim and Emacs are pretty small by today standards. They can run everywhere. Emacs was born text only, BTW. If you start turning on language servers, that becomes the larger part of the editor and the actual editor is just a small fraction of the total.