From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: temacs Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:40:28 -0500 Organization: New Artisans LLC Message-ID: References: <87bokbb4zw.fsf@gnu.org> <83086e1d-d66a-4e0c-95a7-92d10a6de7e7@f8g2000pbf.googlegroups.com> <87r4t3krun.fsf@friendface.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <811ul1ds60.fsf_-_@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340851242 15678 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2012 02:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 02:40:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 28 04:40:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk4et-00012r-Cr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51081 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk4et-0006ka-9N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:40:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40161) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk4eo-0006kV-27 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:40:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk4em-0006jf-CY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:40:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f48.google.com ([209.85.213.48]:35701) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk4em-0006hh-5s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:40:32 -0400 Original-Received: by yhfq46 with SMTP id q46so1158843yhf.35 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:40:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:subject:organization:references:mail-followup-to :date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=/DZNCIBVXJfZaRuZRQJnOPbmBe7WECNNgl2X2ThkKFo=; b=xqAxD9uEF+CNaYziHTbqH9VuYa9K3WbePXwjGjni5tcr0g45fZc5pL1qjh/UU1zSXD sbxYe7nglCBwRXVlwwKXBZ/CKUUQvb3+hQ2EXO7tZiXiDEfrhbnmxJqcselyX31D+c6H 2ADh1wvkz9rNMFOpFNCkb1+rmvn1/3n+ntJV/1jg0/8bu8MPj2CuaLr4gSUC81qAhMQt i9PO2SDJL4xYxM22YzuKeBlj6c+XZB5h9fJBXOIJjNZC3UxUw0fVHMl+fZMgn0If2Dwp VNEGw5SZX2vruHZol4KOqiAomMvwv3gYftdL3U4CFx3bkyayDv15L09utl7pZfWrYG75 whlw== Original-Received: by 10.236.77.74 with SMTP id c50mr180401yhe.112.1340851230512; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:40:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from vulcan.local (c-98-215-105-167.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.215.105.167]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n15sm56740085anh.6.2012.06.27.19.40.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by vulcan.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id BFA3CF1C6F89; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:40:28 -0500 (CDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Ken Goldman's message of "Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:44:00 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.213.48 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85548 Archived-At: >>>>> Ken Goldman writes: > What's the perceived need? The executable isn't big by today's standards. > If you don't use a feature like email, browser, or debugger, it doesn't get > in the way. emacs -Q uses 10MB RSS on my machine. Also, it will do just about anything faster than temacs, since temacs needs to load in even the most rudimentary functions as it runs. Thus, Emacs is already as simple as you need it to be. Just don't load anything in your .emacs. John