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> absolute lightweight > eMacs I love Emacs, but I don't see how a Lisp platform with a web browser, a Tetris implementation, and 4 terminal emulators (shell,

• SamuelAdams 8mo ago
  Ha, fair. Lightweight in this context is relative to Notepad or any modern Windows application.
  • kibibu 8mo ago
    Notepad.exe used to be <200kB. Emacs is tens of megabytes
    • CSm1n 8mo ago
      Notepad was just a wrapper around some default win32 controls. Judging alone by exe size is not right, although probably a “statically linked” notepad would still be smaller than emacs
      • eviks 8mo ago
        It is right by definition. Link emacs to those controls, shed some statically linked weight, and it will also become lighter!
• 1bpp 8mo ago
  To be fair you can say that of anything with a scripting engine, you could have all that in vim or stripped down emacs
  • wk_end 8mo ago
    Anything with a scripting engine isn't lightweight compared to (classic) Notepad! (Also, a lot of that stuff comes bundled with Emacs out-of-the-box, further disqualifying it. Having a scripting engine is one thing, but having a scripting engine along with the whole rest of the jet is something else entirely!)
• deathanatos 8mo ago
  As the old saying goes, "emacs is an operating system lacking only a decent text editor".
  • noosphr 8mo ago
    Not so. Evil mode is a great text editor.