Re: Emacs users a dying breed?

[S Boucher]

>On my 64bit linux system the emacs executable weights in at 13M, feel
>free to comparing that to any other interpreter.


For emacs 23.3, STRIPPED, it weighs in at 10M.  If you look at temacs STRIPPED, 
then it weighs in at 5M.

So, it all depends what you measure.

But I've always wondered what was so dramatic about that.  What would I gain if 
Emacs is shrunk to 1M?


I kind of like Emacs helping me with vc (svn, git, p4, rcs, cvs).  I kind of 
like being able to diff revision without having to use another tool.  Emacs 
seems the right place to do this.

I wish emacs' gdb ui was better (I haven't checked emacs 24 yet).

It's nice to be able to write some lisp to massage/reformat some log output.  
I've done this with a log file that had some unformated xml.  Search for the 
xml, create an indirect buffer, switch to xml mode, and reindent the (indirect) 
buffer, and get rid of the indirect buffer, and voila! a readable log file :-) 
(well, relatively speaking, since xml is not exactly human readable :-))

I've stopped using Emacs for mail and news a long time ago. mail and news have 
become too multimedia oriented for emacs to do things well.