From: "Björn Lindqvist" <bjourne@gmail.com>
To: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 02:02:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALG+76eZbB46YOY46Turmo5urwjQJo_uKjncZv6BkusSPbtLOQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9zcczlf.fsf@russet.org.uk>
Den ons 17 apr. 2019 kl 19:27 skrev Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>:
> It's also possible to turn on NTFS file compression which will remove
> both this and lots of other duplications in the Emacs install. AFAIK,
> this is a user option, however, although I might be able to do it with
> the installer version for Emacs-27.
True, but remember that not all Windows users have administrator
access on their machines. For example, a loooong way back in
university we students had to create a Java project using NetBeans (or
was it Eclipse? IntelliJ? I don't remember) on Windows. I didn't like
NetBeans so I instead installed Emacs (21 I think) to my H: drive
which was 500M of personal space allocated to each student.
A few years later while on vacation in southern Europe I had to write a
(paper) letter to some government agency. I didn't have a laptop with
me, so I instead went to an internet cafe, downloaded Emacs into a
temporary directory, wrote the letter in Emacs and printed it.
Now in each of these cases I didn't have to use Emacs. I could have
used NetBeans as the instructor wanted and I could have written my
letter in write.exe. But it felt nice that Emacs had my back and that
I could work the way I wanted. If Emacs would have been to slow to
download, or taken up to much disk space, I wouldn't have been able
to.
Since then, both bandwidth and disk space has gotten cheaper. But I
bet there are still lots of situations where Emacs' smallness is
important. Especially in poorer parts of the world.
--
mvh/best regards Björn Lindqvist
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-19 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-17 5:01 Bloat in the Emacs Windows package Björn Lindqvist
2019-04-17 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-17 11:15 ` Van L
2019-04-17 11:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-17 12:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-17 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-17 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-18 22:02 ` Björn Lindqvist
2019-04-19 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-17 17:26 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-17 17:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-19 0:02 ` Björn Lindqvist [this message]
2019-04-19 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-19 13:23 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-22 21:04 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-22 21:41 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-17 13:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-17 16:19 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-17 17:28 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-17 15:07 ` Björn Lindqvist
2019-04-17 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-18 23:44 ` Björn Lindqvist
2019-04-19 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-19 14:17 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-19 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-22 20:55 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-17 17:39 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-17 18:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-17 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-18 16:05 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-18 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-18 21:19 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-18 23:12 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-19 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-22 20:40 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-23 2:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-23 10:01 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-23 11:28 ` Robert Pluim
2019-04-23 21:49 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-26 16:30 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-26 17:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-26 21:41 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-27 18:12 ` Björn Lindqvist
2019-04-27 18:17 ` Phillip Lord
2019-05-03 1:06 ` Björn Lindqvist
2019-05-03 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-03 18:38 ` Björn Lindqvist
2019-05-03 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-03 20:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-23 5:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-17 15:44 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-17 16:25 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-17 16:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-18 16:00 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-18 15:56 ` Phillip Lord
2019-04-18 16:39 ` Óscar Fuentes
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