Comment by User23

1 year ago

Emacs[1] has been bloated with collaboration (gnus, etc) and AI features (doctor, lisp in general) for decades!

[1] Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping

8 comments

User23

    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root          24 Oct 29  1929 /bin/ed
    -rwxr-xr-t  4 root     1310720 Jan  1  1970 /usr/ucb/vi
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  5.89824e37 Oct 22  1990 /usr/bin/emacs

Natfan 1 year ago
I'm not getting the same results for ed?
$ whereis -b ed | cut -d' ' -f 2 | xargs ls -l -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 55504 Feb 22 2020 /usr/bin/ed
- ninkendo 1 year ago
  
  Clearly it grew a lot in size since 1929. It doesn’t waste nearly that much space on my timex sinclair.
  (To explain and thus ruin the joke, https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html)
  
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- codetrotter 1 year ago
  
  But your emacs is still 5.89824 * 10^37 bytes in size like parent commenter, right?
- sph 1 year ago
  
  I spent a few minutes trying to work out your pipeline. I think this is easier
  ls -l $(which ed)

atkailash 1 year ago

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