Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic)
Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic)
Posted Feb 25, 2008 9:37 UTC (Mon) by pr1268 (guest, #24648)In reply to: Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic) by debacle
Parent article: Emacs news: new maintainer, version 22 pretest
I don't believe that failing to read your file is caused by the memory consumption of Emacs itself. Maybe it's a bug in Emacs or whatever.
My smirky comment was intentionally facetious; I didn't mean to ignite a whole vi(m) vs. emacs flame war over it. That being said, I don't think my friend's error was caused by a "bug" or software defect; he received an intentional error message from Emacs when he attempted to open the file.