[Gllug] color in xterm emacs

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Sat Jul 5 15:48:39 UTC 2003


On Thu, 03 Jul 2003, Tethys stipulated:
> 
> Nix writes:
> 
>>vi is both more memory-hungry than xemacs, and larger. I dealt with
>>memory consumption in <87znu9bthj.fsf at amaterasu.srvr.nix>; as for
>>the size, well:
>>
>>-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      2073192 Dec  8  2002 /bin/vim
>>-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1714384 May 31 23:06 /usr/bin/xemacs-21.4.13
> 
> Of course, vim != vi. Also, vim doesn't have to be fat:

Neither does Emacs; I'm comparing a fat Emacs to a fat vi.

--- of course, it's a bit mendacious since you can't actually edit text
with that Emacs without ~1.5Mb of dumped Lisp.

But anyway. ;}

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