On 2015-07-26, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Well Almost. >> >> Emacs used to stand for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" >> At a time when 8 MB was large. Is it today? >> So let me ask you: [...] >> If you have one app to do them all, I'd like (and pay!) for it >> If not I bet they are mutually inconsistent. > > For the most part, I use a single text editor. But all their > ancillary tools are separate. Emacs tries to be absolutely > everything, not just editing text files; that's why it's big. Size > isn't just a matter of disk or RAM footprint, it's also (and much > more importantly) UI complexity. > > It's a trade-off, of course. If you constantly have to switch programs > to do your work, that's a different form of UI complexity.
There's always Eclipse, where you spend 30% of your time trying to get plugins to work, 30% upgrading it, 30% trying to figure out why a project somebody else created won't work for you, and 10% shopping for more RAM. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
