Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 11:36:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text editor Message-ID: <201005311636.o4VGarkt001701@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon May 31 00:10:28 2010 > From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 08:10:03 +0300 > Subject: Re: text editor > > 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 Yeah, but EMACS is (currently) reputed to stand for <E>ighty <M>egabytes <A>nd <C>onstantly <S>wapping! *GRIN* I can't get at my FBSD box right now to check vim itself, but on another box, 'nvi' (which is described as a "bug-for-bug compatible replacement for the original Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD) vi", has an executable that is under 256k in size.
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