From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 1 11:40:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD1D37B404 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0ED1743F75 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:40:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from krylon@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 31340 invoked by uid 65534); 1 Aug 2003 18:40:12 -0000 Received: from B654c.pppool.de (HELO there) (213.7.101.76) by mail.gmx.net (mp026) with SMTP; 01 Aug 2003 20:40:12 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Benjamin Walkenhorst To: george donnelly , FreeBSD Q's Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 20:39:25 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20030801184015.0ED1743F75@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: emacs - gnu, x ...? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 18:40:18 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 1. August 2003 02:02, george donnelly wrote: > thanks for the feedback. gui is not important, i guess i'm just looking for > the neat features that everyone talks about - and with a minimum of > resource usage as i would like to install it on a webserver as well so > clients can use it over ssh. Remember, GNU Emacs (and XEmacs, too, I suppose) is at its core a lisp interpreter. Many of Emacs' popular features are actually not "hard-wired" into emacs, but are add-ons written in lisp (though emacs comes with a helluva lot of them...). The tiny emacs-clones just emulate its look and superficial behaviour is the same, but they lack much of emacs' extensibility and customizability. If you just look for a small, easy-to-use editor, zile or µemacs is for you. GNU Emacs, on the other hand, is not that bad ressource-wise. It takes a lot of hard disk space, yes. It takes quite a lot of RAM for an editor, but not that much, either (less than 10MB on my machine, usually). CPU usage is pretty low (my machine: PentiumIII 450) mostly. You can also run GNU emacs in server mode. Users wanting to use emacs do not start a new instance of emacs, but just attach their client-sessions to the emacs-server. The main advantage I see is memory saved, and also some relief on the disks, for emacs remains in RAM all the time. kind regards, Benjamin Walkenhorst - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: krylon@gmx.net homepage: http://www.krylon.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key available at http://www.krylon.de iD8DBQE/KrPjoYumWdMvhMQRAjllAJ48iNW1J8IZ6JBwBusbX557gMVm1wCcDipg O9yHNmExcVVk1W40g5eM/so= =Db1B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----