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Date:      Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:04:42 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?UmFkaW8gbcWCb2R5Y2ggYmFuZHl0w7N3?= <radiomlodychbandytow@o2.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Outdated stuff in Devs' Handbook
Message-ID:  <4E60D46A.3050200@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E60BC31.5000206@o2.pl>
References:  <4E60BC31.5000206@o2.pl>

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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 which is a reference to a statement that notes its outdated, but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



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