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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
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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
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