EMACS rpm is 11 megabytes????

[Alma J Wetzker]

Ric Moore wrote:
> Holy Batman, I was installing for apache-ant and somehow the EMACS rpm
> got sucked into the yum process at a whopping 11 megabytes. What the
> hell could be in a text based system for 11 megs?? That thing is as big
> as KDE. <shudders> 
> 
> We had one young kid in tech support at RedHat that could ring that
> thing's bells. He looked like the leading character in "Hackers",
> fingers clackity clacking all over the keyboard, like the dope field
> playing the piano in "Reefer Madness". Text marching and moving with
> cuts and pastes all over the place! It was a sight to behold. He was
> zen'd out, all blissful and connected to the thing like he was possessed
> by Stallman's ghost or something. 
> 
> As addictive as my personality is, I figured I'd stay away from that
> one. Now it's installed. It would just be a small step to fire the Devil
> up, a seemingly insignificant decision. My question is would I start
> shooting Heroin next? Is one toke one toke too many? What says Group? 
> 
> I am afraid, Ric

EMACS, is well named. (Eighty Megabytes And Continues Swapping.)  I once
entered a computer survey and claimed that WordStar was the most
difficult game to win, I had not yet been introduced to EMACS, just
getting the thing to save is like getting the Amulet of Yendor.  If the
choice is between that and vi, I prefer edlin!

(Back when I did support for DOS programs, edlin was my best friend.  I
could have a remote customer update a program one line at a time, and
they would not get confused by masses of code.  Very nice!)

    -- Alma