From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and osx Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:01:51 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85fyxua9vk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <_D97e.1227972$35.44954684@news4.tin.it> <0qb7e.1228649$35.44974099@news4.tin.it> <85wtr6abga.fsf@gnu.org> <425D4AED.3050407@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113412008 4665 80.91.229.2 (13 Apr 2005 17:06:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 13 19:06:47 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLlJQ-0007jI-JD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:06:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLkqO-0005DJ-De for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:36:00 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qbkWhvPMZ/CgAd/fN27k8hH6X9o= Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Apr 2005 19:01:54 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: eb2d2688.newsread2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=hoodQjgE9CSdJbi5MOK` List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25641 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25641 Bob Hunter writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> Bob Hunter writes: >> >>>... I bumped into this file: >>> >>>http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs-backup/emacs-sources.tar.gz >>> >>>Date: 13-Apr-2005 03:29 >>>Size: 76.5M (compressed) >>> >>>This "editor" needs to go on diet... >> This is the CVS backup. It contains _all_ versions of Emacs and all >> intermediate development stages for the last 6 or 7 years or so. I am >> surprised that the size is so small. > > ... good grief. > > Any directions for (the tar version of) version 22? I do not want to > register for the CVS, I just need the latest tar. You could read the instructions on . There is no registration required for an anonymous CVS checkout. Anyway, I just tried an experimental tar+zip on my CVS tree (which is not completely clean) and this resulted in 68MB. So you might not have the CVS backup of the Emacs repository, after all. Try using it. Anyway, Emacs is an extensible text processing platform and desktop environment, so you should not compare its size to vi and edlin. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum