EMACS rpm is 11 megabytes????

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 19:45 -0600, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 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!)

I  miss pico. I never cared for vi. Remember the GI can openers, with
the pointy hinged blade? Sure, it'll open a can. It's just not the
"Right Thing" for me. Dosedit rocked. What was the simple line editor in
CP/M? Linedit or something like that? Sure vi has it's place. I just do
not prefer it coming from a dos background where a decent editor took
16k.