Emacs: Worth every megabyte

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Kiki_the_Cyber_Squarrel
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Iscritto: 12/02/2024

My Trisquel partition is nearly full so I used GNOME's wonderful "baobab" program to check what's filling up my system, and I've noticed that a folder called ./emacs-29.4 is taking up 677MB, it contains the source code of the latest Emacs release together with my compilation of such Emacs.

For your information, I tried to make a compressed tarball of such folder to see its compressed size, but I got an error telling me that there's no space left on the device, so I urgently cleaned up some stuff so that I would be able to compress the folder: the compressed folder is 168MB.

Worth every megabyte. I'm serious, I love Emacs so much that I'm actually kind of happy that the folder takes up so much space in my system, it's good because I have more megabytes to love, if I wanted minimalism then I would be using Vim or something, I like it that Emacs is so huge and full of features

Kiki_the_Cyber_Squarrel
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Iscritto: 12/02/2024

This post may sound like a joke but I'm serious when I say I love Emacs.

Zoma
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Iscritto: 11/05/2024

I still don't understand people's love of emacs truthfully. I am somewhat curious but also somewhat wondering if people's reasons would even make sense to me. But curious nonetheless.

mousepad, l3afpad/leafpad are what i use.