Emacs

[Sean <snmjohnson@iclub.org>]

I've been thinking about giving emacs a look see, as it seems that a
zillion people out there use it, and I do like some of the features I've
heard about.  I went and took a very cursory glance at the FAQ, and some
of the online manual, and then went to apt-get install.  This thing is
HUGE.  I'd heard that emacs wasn't small, but almost 10MB for a text
editor? (+15MB if you want to use xemacs)

Perhaps I'm just missing some glaring options, but for me to download 10
or 25MB worth of text editor, this thing better do everything except mop
the floor.  I guess all was really wondering is if some of the
emacs-wizards out there could enlighten me on the functionalities of
emacs.  I'm not really up to starting a flame war, so comments like "use
emacs, it rocks, vi sucks!" are going to be utterly useless to me.
Normally I just download the stuff and play . . . but the size of this
thing has made a little more than hesitant.

Thanx.


Sean

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