> absolute lightweight

> eMacs

I love Emacs, but I don't see how a Lisp platform with a web browser, a Tetris implementation, and 4 terminal emulators (shell, term, ansi-term, eshell) can be considered 'lightweight'.

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deathanatos 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As the old saying goes, "emacs is an operating system lacking only a decent text editor".

	▲	noosphr 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not so. Evil mode is a great text editor.

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1bpp 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To be fair you can say that of anything with a scripting engine, you could have all that in vim or stripped down emacs

	▲	wk_end 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Anything with a scripting engine isn't lightweight compared to (classic) Notepad! (Also, a lot of that stuff comes bundled with Emacs out-of-the-box, further disqualifying it. Having a scripting engine is one thing, but having a scripting engine along with the whole rest of the jet is something else entirely!)

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SamuelAdams 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ha, fair. Lightweight in this context is relative to Notepad or any modern Windows application.

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kibibu 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Notepad.exe used to be <200kB. Emacs is tens of megabytes

	▲	CSm1n an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Notepad was just a wrapper around some default win32 controls. Judging alone by exe size is not right, although probably a “statically linked” notepad would still be smaller than emacs