[Bug-zile] Fwd: Updated Zile Homepage

[Reuben Thomas]

Sorry, finger trouble, failed to send reply to list first time.

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From: Reuben Thomas <address@hidden>
Date: 17 March 2014 01:08
Subject: Re: Updated Zile Homepage
To: "Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden>

On 17 March 2014 01:04, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:

How about changing from:

Zmacs is aimed at small footprint systems and quick editing sessions (it starts up and shuts down instantly).

To:

Zmacs is aimed at quick editing sessions in resource constrained environments where a configurable and extensible editor is still required.

I'd say that's less what it's "aimed at", and more what it's good for.

There's an elephant in the room of my making here: when I get back to programming after Lent I'm going to retry an experiment that weirdly didn't work last time I tried a couple of years ago, to get a minimal build of Emacs. Emacs already fulfils the performance requirements of Zile on a typical desktop or laptop, but the minimal Debian packages you can install still add up to 100Mb. If it were possible to install in something more like the size of vim-tiny (~1Mb), then I'd be happy for it to replace Zile Is Lossy Emacs, and we really would have decoupled that old project from the new Zile Implements Lua Editors.

My post-Lent TODO list is already 27 items long.

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