On 2013-05-23 16:36, Tom Buskey wrote: > I think this is the 1st time I ever saw Low Ram use and emacs (Eight > Megabytes And Constantly Swapping) in the same paragraph.
From the JOKES file (or http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html), one of my favorites: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed -rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Bill Freeman <ke1g...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote: > > Back in the day, running telnet inside emacs was faster than in xterm > because of emacs' terminal optimization. Important when you shared a > 56k link. Or 2400 baud modems. > > Honestly, I'm at the point I just want low ram use, scroll back lots of > lines, emulate vt100 with line drawing and increase/shrink font size > quickly. Oh, and installed on all the Unixen I use. > > Low RAM use? Then you want emacs. No matter how many terminals you > need you only need one emacs. And you don't have to start any of those > pesky vim instances either - you get file editing for free!!! > > Or are we talking PDP-11/20 class low RAM use? > > (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.) > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ [1] > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/