Comment on My Text Editor Journey: Vim, Spacemacs, Atom and Sublime TextparentComments−adrianratnapala9yThe emacs that I installed in vanilla Slackware back in '95 seemed plenty super-bloated to me. That's why I learned vi.It took me a long time to even consider that new-fangled 'vim' thing.−mschaef9yWell, Emacs did stand for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping", after all...−bostand9y... how much memory does atom use for editing a 1kb file?−Qwertious9yThe question is, how much does vim use editing anything. IIRC the vim-runtime takes up a whole lot more than 8MB nowadays. It's a seriously weird argument.
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The emacs that I installed in vanilla Slackware back in '95 seemed plenty super-bloated to me. That's why I learned vi.
It took me a long time to even consider that new-fangled 'vim' thing.
Well, Emacs did stand for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping", after all...
... how much memory does atom use for editing a 1kb file?
The question is, how much does vim use editing anything. IIRC the vim-runtime takes up a whole lot more than 8MB nowadays. It's a seriously weird argument.