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by SamuelAdams7 hours ago |
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upvoteby tmtvl7 hours ago|
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> 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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upvoteby deathanatos4 hours ago|
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As the old saying goes, "emacs is an operating system lacking only a decent text editor".
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upvoteby noosphr3 hours ago|
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Not so. Evil mode is a great text editor.
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upvoteby 1bpp4 hours ago|
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To be fair you can say that of anything with a scripting engine, you could have all that in vim or stripped down emacs
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upvoteby wk_end4 hours ago|
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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!)

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upvoteby SamuelAdams7 hours ago|
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Ha, fair. Lightweight in this context is relative to Notepad or any modern Windows application.
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upvoteby kibibu5 hours ago|
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Notepad.exe used to be <200kB. Emacs is tens of megabytes
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upvoteby CSm1n1 hours ago|
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Notepad was just a wrapper around some default win32 controls. Judging alone by exe size is not right, although probably a “statically linked” notepad would still be smaller than emacs
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upvoteby JohnFen5 hours ago|
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vi and emacs are absolutely not lightweight, let alone "absolutely lightweight".
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upvoteby jmclnx5 hours ago|
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If by vi you mean vim, then I agree, real vi is rather lite.

As someone famous said, "everything is relative" :) Compared to the new applications that have been coming out, Emacs and vim are a paragon of lightness.

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upvoteby irishcoffee4 hours ago|
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I agree with you that vi is lighter than vim. I’ve seen more than a few instances of an OS just aliasing vi to vim.

On that note, why are the keybindings for vi on a “modern” Ubuntu different from fedoras? I remember having to mess with ^H in a vimrc or something to that effect to mimic the behavior I was expecting.

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upvoteby cwillu2 hours ago|
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Sounds like the terminal (not vi) you're using has different defaults; backspace and delete are the two common keys that vary.
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upvoteby irishcoffee1 hours ago|
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That makes a lot of sense. I'll do some research on different terminal behaviors. Thanks!
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upvoteby paxys4 hours ago|
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I'm sorry but you cannot use VS Code and lightweight in the same sentence.
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