From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 2 13:04:44 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC108106566C for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 13:04:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gjb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from glenbarber.us (onyx.glenbarber.us [199.48.134.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DFB58FC1E for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 13:04:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 48436 invoked by uid 0); 2 Sep 2011 09:04:43 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO schism.local) (gjb@75.146.225.65) by 0 with SMTP; 2 Sep 2011 09:04:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4E60D46A.3050200@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:04:42 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:6.0.1) Gecko/20110830 Thunderbird/6.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?UmFkaW8gbcWCb2R5Y2ggYmFuZHl0w7N3?= References: <4E60BC31.5000206@o2.pl> In-Reply-To: <4E60BC31.5000206@o2.pl> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Outdated stuff in Devs' Handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:04:44 -0000 On 9/2/11 7:21 AM, Radio młodych bandytów wrote: > First, > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/emacs.html > > It starts with "Unfortunately, UNIX® systems do not come with the kind > of > everything-you-ever-wanted-and-lots-more-you-did-not-in-one-gigantic-package > integrated development environments that other systems have.", after > which is a reference to a statement that notes its outdated, but > nevertheless the line clearly deserves removal. > Agreed. > Then "Also, you will need a fair amount of memory to run it--I would > recommend 8MB in text mode and 16MB in X as the bare minimum to get > reasonable performance." > It's just funny. > That's why it's called Emacs - Eight megabytes and constantly swapping. :-) Nonetheless, this does need to be updated. Thanks for the report. -- Glen Barber | gjb@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Documentation Project