[aklug] Re: Emacs, vi(m) or other

+10 meg in size? lol
Some flash ads on websites are more today. That was a big deal 15 years ago
but not today where that is very small. Most people do not run Unix anymore
and have switched to Windows and Linux. Solaris is still out sporadically
but I believe it comes with both like Linux (unless I am wrong).

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>wrote:

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> On 08/15/10 22:06, Greg Madden wrote:
> > On Friday 13 August 2010 20:24:55 Christopher Kunzler wrote:
> >> Sorry about brining up religion, I was just wondering what
> >> everyone's preference is.
> >
> > I can't control myself any longer .
> >
> > Caveat, desktop user pov.
> >
> > Of course it depends...on the job at hand
> >
> > For simple editing of a text file I use nano, default on a Debian
> install, so
> > it is everywhere :)
> >
> > I like vi, but I don't need the features so I forget how to use it.
> >
> > emacs, never installed it, and in recent memory, it doesn't get
> installed by
> > default. Seems like there was a time when emacs was installed...hmmm.
> >
> >
>
> Probably the reason Emacs isn't installed everywhere be default is
> because even the stripped down Emacs binary is 10M+ in size, while nano
> is around 100K. Not sure how vim weighs in, off the top of my head.
>
> - --
> Christopher Howard
> frigidcode.com
> theologia.indicium.us
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