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Date:      Mon, 31 May 2010 09:59:00 -0600
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: text editor
Message-ID:  <20100531155900.GA1417@guilt.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <87zkzgsllg.fsf@kobe.laptop>
References:  <4C01DD3F.3040000@a1poweruser.com> <871vct44ww.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100530232827.GB97659@guilt.hydra> <87zkzgsllg.fsf@kobe.laptop>

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On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:10:03AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Sun, 30 May 2010 17:28:27 -0600, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wro=
te:
> >On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:31:59PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >> If you don't mind the size of the respective packages, both VIM and
> >> GNU Emacs have support for many features that ee(1) lacks.
> >
> > I'm not sure why you mentioned the size of Vim here as if it's a
> > remarkably large piece of software.  It *barely* doesn't fit on a 3.5"
> > floppy when you use a full install of the console-based Vim editor.
> > I'm pretty sure it's under 2 MB.
>=20
> Vim is much smaller than Emacs but it still a few MB's here:
>=20
>   keramida@kobe:/usr/ports/packages/All$ ls -ld vim*
>   -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 5757731  1 =CE=91=CF=80=CF=81 17:11 vim-li=
te-7.2.344.tbz

Does Vim install more than the binary?  I've got this:

    > ls -l /usr/local/bin/vim
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1650340 Apr 18 12:20 /usr/local/bin/vim

I don't think the size of the installation tarball is necessarily
representative of the final size.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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