EMACS rpm is 11 megabytes????

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On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:50:44PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> What the hell could be in a text based system for 11 megs??

Bascially, another o/s. Text editor, web browser, chat client, news
reader, mail client, games, etc. :)

I use emacs on one of my computers, mostly just for email though as
I really do like gnus. I've tried using w3m, zen (think it's zen for
chat) and they're ok...just not for me though.

> It would just be a small step to fire the Devil up, a seemingly
> insignificant decision.

Much easier to start it than it is to configure .emacs and .gnus :)
There is a lot of documentation on the web about emacs though, so
it's not *so* bad...IMHO it is a lot of work to become good with it.
I'd second the suggestion of nano. I use vim most of the time, but
every now and then it's nice to see a pico clone.

> My question is would I start shooting Heroin next?

No. You'd probably try to install vrms (virtual richard m.
stallman, a Debian program that tells you if you have any evil
non-gpl'd programs on your system). :)

Dan