Emacs 23.2 released

Posted May 9, 2010 3:12 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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Emacs 23.2 released

Posted May 9, 2010 6:47 UTC (Sun) by dambacher (subscriber, #1710) [Link] (9 responses)

Kicking off the usual flamewar, eh?

Emacs 23.2 released

Posted May 9, 2010 6:58 UTC (Sun) by adavid (guest, #42044) [Link] (8 responses)

GNU Emacs is mother. GNU Emacs is father. Hail GNU Emacs.

Now, if someone just reposts the "one true editor" post, we will be done.

Emacs 23.2 released

Posted May 9, 2010 10:37 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

Long live vi!

There you go ;-)

Emacs 23.2 released

Posted May 9, 2010 11:41 UTC (Sun) by ewan (guest, #5533) [Link] (6 responses)

I don't see what text editors have to do with the Emacs OS, though I suppose you could run one on it if it hadn't already used all your memory.

Emacs 23.2 released

Posted May 9, 2010 13:32 UTC (Sun) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link] (1 responses)

I used to think Emacs is bloated, but having to use Eclipse at work cured me of that misperception ;)

Emacs 23.2 released

Posted May 10, 2010 2:31 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

Repeat after me: Java is fast, Java won't use all my memory ;-)

Emacs 23.2 released

Posted May 9, 2010 17:21 UTC (Sun) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (3 responses)

Emacs used to stand for "eight megs and constantly swapping".

The "eight megs" part seems to be true still. On a modern machine it is unlikely to be constantly swapping.

Emacs 23.2 released

Posted May 9, 2010 18:16 UTC (Sun) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] (1 responses)

This was supposed to mean that even on a machine with 8 MiB RAM (huge at the time) it would be constantly swapping. Today's xemacs (on Fedora x86_64, using its graphical interface) is using around 4 MiB when editing a single (largeish) file, which on 4 GiB RAM is a drop in the ocean...

Emacs 23.2 released

Posted May 9, 2010 19:05 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Hah. Start Gnus and watch that zoom up. My XEmacs is using 800Mb... which is *still* a drop in the ocean.

Emacs Acronym

Posted May 10, 2010 22:06 UTC (Mon) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545) [Link]

My Favorite:

Escape Meta Alt Control Shift
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Others I've heard:
Eats Memory and Crashes Sometimes
Eats Memory and Constantly Swaps
Eats Memory and Crashes Seldom

Cry

Emacs 23.2 released

Posted May 11, 2010 20:52 UTC (Tue) by jonabbey (guest, #2736) [Link] (1 responses)

Says you. I've been using Emacs for 20 years now, and I have no desire to use any other text editor for code development.

Vim is fine for the quick file edit, but I can't stand the moronic horror show that is CUA.

Emacs 23.2 released

Posted May 11, 2010 21:01 UTC (Tue) by jonabbey (guest, #2736) [Link]

Er, by which I mean text editors that are limited to cursor keys (with optional shift/option/ctrl modifiers) and mousing.

That's just crazy talk, IMO.