• AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      He uses a version of Emacs called MicroEmacs.

      I recall seeing his MicroEmacs configuration a while back when I was exploring options to start using Emacs.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        MicroEmacs

        In testing, to settle a bet by a rabid cult-of-vi peer, I opened a given set of files in each editor, each a day apart because I couldn’t be arsed to clear caches. This guy, otherwise a prince, was railing about emacs, but otherwise suffered days of waiting.

        10/10 the memory usage by his precious vi was same-or-more than emacs.

        There’s so many shared libs pulled in by the shell that all the fuddy doomsaying about bloat is now just noise.

        I avoid vi because even in 1992 it was crusty and wrong-headed. 30 years on the hard-headed cult and the app haven’t changed.

        I don’t see how microEmacs can improve on what we have by default, and I worry that the more niche the product is the harder it will be to find answers online. But I’m willing to be swayed if anyone can pitch its virtues.

        • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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          MicroEmacs was written in 1985 and has nothing to do with GNU Emacs (which people just call Emacs these days). It’s entirely outside of the vi-vs-emacs war.

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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      If we can believe random strangers in the internet, then Linus uses a self maintained lighter version of Emacs, or has. Looks like Linus is an Emacs guy.