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Difference in startup speed.

Posted Nov 9, 2006 9:59 UTC (Thu) by anandsr21 (guest, #28562)
In reply to: Difference in startup speed. by pflugstad
Parent article: Pre-testing Emacs 22

The fact that you have to install it, is no good. The reason I use Vi for quick editing is because I can depend on it to be there. If I have to work substantially more then I will think of installing something, and in this case why not go with the real thing.

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Posted Nov 14, 2006 21:00 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

But you have to install *everything* on a Linux box, or how does it get
there? It's not as if we have a `core' like the BSDs.

(In any case the argument is nearly-inverted on Solaris boxes, which tend
to get XEmacs as a matter of course on development platforms because Sun's
flagship development environment has XEmacs integration.)