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tmtvl | 4 days ago

> absolute lightweight

> eMacs

I love Emacs, but I don't see how a Lisp platform with a web browser, a Tetris implementation, and 4 terminal emulators (shell, term, ansi-term, eshell) can be considered 'lightweight'.

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deathanatos|4 days ago

As the old saying goes, "emacs is an operating system lacking only a decent text editor".

noosphr|4 days ago

Not so. Evil mode is a great text editor.

SamuelAdams|4 days ago

Ha, fair. Lightweight in this context is relative to Notepad or any modern Windows application.

kibibu|4 days ago

Notepad.exe used to be <200kB. Emacs is tens of megabytes

1bpp|4 days ago

To be fair you can say that of anything with a scripting engine, you could have all that in vim or stripped down emacs

wk_end|4 days ago

Anything with a scripting engine isn't lightweight compared to (classic) Notepad!

(Also, a lot of that stuff comes bundled with Emacs out-of-the-box, further disqualifying it. Having a scripting engine is one thing, but having a scripting engine along with the whole rest of the jet is something else entirely!)