On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 16:54:35 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: [..] >Since free implementaions of vi have become available, I have tended to >stick to that on Unix systems unless I want to do something exotic like >running complex macros that act on multiple files simultaneously. Vi is >much easier to learn, especially if you are familiar with 'ed' syntax, >but at 24Mb sounds like a heck of a lot of overhead has been added. >Standard 'vi' on my BSD box is: > skaro:/usr/home/digbyt> ls -l `which vi` > -r-xr-xr-x 3 bin bin 225280 Jan 21 1997 /usr/bin/vi >which still seems large to me. On my Debian Sid: % ls -l /usr/bin/vim.full -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1860324 2006-05-22 14:19 /usr/bin/vim.full % ls -l /usr/bin/vim.gnome -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1673804 2006-05-22 14:19 /usr/bin/vim.gnome % ls -l /usr/bin/nvi -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 359796 2006-05-27 00:13 /usr/bin/nvi I am fairly sure that you can make VIM _a_lot_ smaller than that 'vim --version' reveals that there are 88 features compiled in and only 11 left out. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org Jabber: magnus.therning@gmail.com http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. Finagle's Fifth Law: Always draw your curves, then plot your readings.
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