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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by sigzero on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:26AM (#15366097)
Minimalist? Really now.
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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by yellowapple on Friday September 29, 2017 @08:34PM (#15370421)
It's basically a Lisp machine runtime that happens to include a built-in text editing window.

Compared to the likes of Visual Studio, Eclipse, or Sublime, though, it's certainly minimalist. The typical "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" joke is a bit quaint nowadays.

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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by snaky on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:27PM (#15367232)
Well, it depends on what you compare it with. IDEA, Visual Studio, Eclipse, you know. Of course, comparing to nano and nvi, Emacs isn't so much minimalist - but hey, did you ever try to run Emacs with no elisp packages?
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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by msla on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:38PM (#15367368)
Comparing Emacs with ed is a point in ed's favor, sure.

Ditto Emacs and Notepad, or nano.

Comparing Emacs with anything else is more likely to look favorable to Emacs.

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