Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been thinking about giving emacs a look see, [..] This thing is > HUGE. [..] for me to download 10 or 25MB worth of text editor, this > thing better do everything except mop the floor.
"David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied, telling that Emacs can be used for virtually anything, and that it provides wonderful tools for program development e.g. in C. I fully agree. At the end of his reply he writes: > (not flaming) I don't use Emacs for *everything*. Mail, news, > coding, TeX, it's wonderful, but from day-to-day text editing it is > kind of big and huge. Yay vim. :-) On the other hand, I find one of the advantages of Emacs, that you can do every kind of editing, so that it is not necesary to get used to another editor. And once you have installed Emacs in your computer, why not utilise the 10 to 25 megs as much as possible. On current state-of-the-art computers, and even on computers that were state-of-the-art a few years ago, Emacs is not notably slower than any other editor, and once you are used to the Emnacs commands, they are not harder than the commands of any other editor (on the contrary, I would say). Therefore I start Emacs routinely during login and use it for everything that involves editing. It is only a pity that I have up to now not been successfull to let Emacs mob my floor or wash my dishes. Paul Huygen
