From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 26 08:34:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA26772 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:34:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA26767 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:34:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA24967; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:33:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA21074; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:33:21 -0700 Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:33:21 -0700 Message-Id: <199810261633.JAA21074@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Mike Smith , Dan Swartzendruber , "Stephen J. Roznowski" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 3.0 installation problems In-Reply-To: <199810261552.KAA18400@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <3.0.5.32.19981024160121.009bc430@mail.kersur.net> <199810242040.NAA07711@dingo.cdrom.com> <199810261552.KAA18400@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > If the machine is "stripped down", then you sure don't want Emacs on it. > > Try one of the lighter clones, and save yourself the worry. > > Nonsense. If you want Emacs, you want Emacs, not some poor imitation. Actuall, uemacs is a pretty good 'clone' of emacs, and doesn't take 16MB of memory to run well. :) I remember when EMACS stood for 'Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping', but it now stands for 'Eighteen Megabytes And Constantly Swapping', and will soon stand for 'Eighty Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.' ( For the humor impaired, this is sarcasm. I happen to use XEmacs as my primary editor on my workstation, but I also don't even bother trying to install it on my low-end box which is a slow 486 with very little memory, where I've installed uemacs.) > This has nothing to do with whether the machine is ``stripped down'' > or not. Sure it does. Emacs doesn't a relatively *LONG* time to come up, while I can edit a file and be done with it using uemacs in about the same time I finally get emacs to get the file open and displayed on my screen. :( Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message