Re:A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000)
by bootload on Sunday November 27, 2016 @09:06PM
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"why emacs is almost never installed by default while vi(m) is?"
Memory footprint of emacs is? Vs memory footprint of vi? I've had problem machines where no OS is installed and working in low memory cf: ~ https://slashdot.org/~goon/journal/49959 so steps like ^copying bootblack to disk and hexifying using vi(m) and hexman^ for example, painful in Ed, impossible in emacs, are made bearable in vi.
Memory footprint of emacs is? Vs memory footprint of vi? I've had problem machines where no OS is installed and working in low memory cf: ~ https://slashdot.org/~goon/journal/49959 so steps like ^copying bootblack to disk and hexifying using vi(m) and hexman^ for example, painful in Ed, impossible in emacs, are made bearable in vi.