From: Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Zile and minimal systems
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 10:05:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3a47bbe-29f0-85b1-0c7d-645d56a8cc29@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877di0jwwt.fsf@inria.fr>
On 08.07.2021 23:52, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Commit da40d07066096a3b5a852041ea01fbb32240deda updates Zile, but this
> new version seems to have little in common with previous ones. In
> particular, it has more dependencies and a larger footprint:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ guix size zile | tail -1 # before
> total: 85.7 MiB
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix size zile | tail -1 # after
> total: 126.2 MiB
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Should we provide another Emacs clone in the installation image and in
> ‘%base-packages’?
>
> ‘zile-on-guile’ is tempting but currently unmaintained. ‘mg’ could work too.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ludo’.
>
I like mg. It's basically my vi/nano when I do sysadmin-ish work.
One of the first things I install on a server I'll be working on.
Starts up instantly, supports multiple buffers, regexp search,
multiple panes (C-x 2), and a few other nifty Emacs things, even
a tiny Dired-like mode. Yet it's absolutely tiny at 200K with a
single binary.
Obviously no comparison to the real beast that is Emacs. :-)
Never used Zile so can't say how it compares.
--
Taylan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-09 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-08 21:52 Zile and minimal systems Ludovic Courtès
2021-07-09 8:05 ` Taylan Kammer [this message]
2021-07-09 8:24 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-07-09 9:05 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-07-09 10:13 ` Mathieu Othacehe
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