From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 13:32:27 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? In-Reply-To: <20170226123956.DBD3C18C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20170226123956.DBD3C18C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On 26 Feb 2017, at 12:39, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > I was never happy with the size of EMACS, and it had nothing to do with the > amount of memory resources used. That big a binary implies a very large amount > of source, and the more lines of code, the more places for bugs... And it > makes it harder to understand, for someone working on it (to make a > change/improvement). I think whether you think Emacs is large or small depends on what you think it is. If you think it's a text editor it's huge (by the standards of the 1970s, anyway: I have things which purport to be text editors which have python interpreters in and are significantly larger than Emacs, *on my phone*). But if you think of it as the userland of an operating system it's rather small. And many Emacs users do (or did: I used to but don't so much any more) treat it as the latter.