Xah Lee's ErgoEmacs fork of GNU Emacs is a memory hog. On my machine, the EmacsW32 program uses 23,032 K of working set with three text buffers open. With the same buffers open, ErgoEmacs uses more than 103,000 K. The most significant differences between ErgoEmacs and other Emacsen (actually, the whole point to ErgoEmacs) are user-interface issues. ErgoEmacs uses keybindings that match Windows conventions. I wish that I were as prolific as him, but he should include some tips on memory usage in his tutorials.
Is it a fork ? I thought it was a distribution. I never read that they changed emacs core, so I thought it was just a vanilla build with prepackaged/preconfigured bits to reflect their principles.
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Xah Lee's ErgoEmacs fork of GNU Emacs is a memory hog. On my machine, the EmacsW32 program uses 23,032 K of working set with three text buffers open. With the same buffers open, ErgoEmacs uses more than 103,000 K. The most significant differences between ErgoEmacs and other Emacsen (actually, the whole point to ErgoEmacs) are user-interface issues. ErgoEmacs uses keybindings that match Windows conventions. I wish that I were as prolific as him, but he should include some tips on memory usage in his tutorials.
Is it a fork ? I thought it was a distribution. I never read that they changed emacs core, so I thought it was just a vanilla build with prepackaged/preconfigured bits to reflect their principles.
Also, Ergoemacs is definitely not a necessary program. I use emacs with (cua-mode 1) and other shortcuts with the which I'm more comfortable.
Honestly, who cares? Loading time of ergoemacs is a bit lot. But Emacs stays reponsive. I think Emacs performance is not an issue in 2012.