On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well Almost. > Emacs used to stand for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" > At a time when 8 MB was large. Is it today? > So let me ask you: > Do you not use ½ dozen (at least) languages? > And their interpreters (when they exist) > And their ancilliary tools (make autoconf etc) > And do you not type plain text? > Emails? > PIM (reminders, timesheets and planning) > Docs (more fancy than plain text, maybe libreoffice/MS/latex...) > Lilypond? > Use, experiment, play-around with (non-ASCII) unicode? > > If you have one app to do them all, I'd like (and pay!) for it > If not I bet they are mutually inconsistent. >
For the most part, I use a single text editor. But all their ancillary tools are separate. Emacs tries to be absolutely everything, not just editing text files; that's why it's big. Size isn't just a matter of disk or RAM footprint, it's also (and much more importantly) UI complexity. It's a trade-off, of course. If you constantly have to switch programs to do your work, that's a different form of UI complexity. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list