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Date:      Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:27:12 -0500
From:      Parv <parv@pair.com>
To:        Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to edit file in single user mode
Message-ID:  <20041203052711.GA489@moo.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <41AFCCDC.6000109@mukappabeta.de>
References:  <41AA5AFC.2090902@fastmail.fm> <20041128201638.N66254@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <41AA663F.2030106@fastmail.fm> <41AE5BB9.1000902@daleco.biz> <20041202032751.GA552@moo.holy.cow> <41AFCCDC.6000109@mukappabeta.de>

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in message <41AFCCDC.6000109@mukappabeta.de>,
wrote Matthias Buelow thusly...
>
> Parv wrote:
> 
> >...my old C++ class editor project.  My version of the editor --
> >ed like commands, no regex support, menu driven -- statically
> >compiled w/ GCC 3.4 & stripped takes 403 kB (-O1) or 389 kB
> >(-O2).  (It has yet to go through a thorough review though.
> >Anybody care to take a look?)
> 
> That's pretty heavy,

Well there are some factors: my first attempt of the editor w/
linked list as the data structure, and C++ itself.


> considering that without REs it would be roughly equivalent to the
> dreaded EDLIN.COM, which came in at around 7K. ;)

7 kB? Dang, that's smaller than ed(1), 143 kB, itself.  ed(1) seems
better and better (if EDLIN.COM equivalent is unavailable for Unix).


  - Anubhav

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