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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Borland-type editor anywhere? Date: 11 May 1996 11:45:20 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4n1ukg$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <ADlbrKriXS@qsar.chem.msu.su> <4mp2d4$4m0@complete.org> <4n0314$167@dhp.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jaeger@dhp.com (jaeger) wrote: > Joe is also infinitely faster to load and much less of a memory hog > than the full-sized emacs. I don't wanna start an editor flame war here, but just to name one thing: people who argue about the startup time of Emacs have never been using it correctly. Why? Since Emacs is a ``permanent object'', you start it once when logging in, and exit it before logging out. $EDITOR is set to emacsclient, so all your editing sessions appear in the resident emacs. This is regardless of whether you run it in a window system or in text mode on a separate VT. Emacs has been designed in a way so that you don't need to run multiple copies of it. (The size argument is almost moot. When comparing against a text-mode editor, you have to compare an Emacs running text-mode, of course, and if you then look at the typical vi user with 5 or so open vi sessions, the single Emacs session doesn't appear to be that wasteful at all.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)