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Date:      Mon, 31 May 2010 08:10:03 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: text editor
Message-ID:  <87zkzgsllg.fsf@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <20100530232827.GB97659@guilt.hydra> (Chad Perrin's message of "Sun, 30 May 2010 17:28:27 -0600")
References:  <4C01DD3F.3040000@a1poweruser.com> <871vct44ww.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100530232827.GB97659@guilt.hydra>

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On Sun, 30 May 2010 17:28:27 -0600, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
>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.

Vim is much smaller than Emacs but it still a few MB's here:

  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-lite=
-7.2.344.tbz




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