[Info-vax] Editors, was: Re: VT keyboard replacement

[Chris Townley]

On 08/11/2021 20:30, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 7:53:04 AM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> EVE is mostly a super set of EDT functionality wise ...
> 
> Except it was never saddled with anything so clunky as a “current direction” mode ...
> 
>> (note that a modern IDE requires like 256 MB - 2 GB of memory)
> 
> top reports that my Emacs instance is currently using around 87MB of “RES”(ident) RAM. This after continuously running for about 2½ weeks.
> 
> But then, Emacs is not an IDE. IDEs limit you to using their particular build systems, while Emacs doesn’t care what build system you want to use: whatever the command is to launch a build, you can bind it to a single custom keystroke.
> 
Emacs - Eight Meg and continuously swapping

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Chris