[SATLUG] Question of the Week

[Greg Willden]

J. Patrick Lanigan wrote:

> I think there should be a distinction between editors, e.g. vi and 
> emacs on *nix, notepad and wordpad on win, and IDEs. Visual Studio is 
> an IDE with a large cost in resources. Technically you can say that 
> there is an editor integrated into the VS IDE, but I doubt this was 
> the intent of the question.


Well let's make a few comparisons with my favorite editor XEmacs (using 
v21.4) on Windows 2K.
I opened VS6 and XEmacs each with no files open
Memory Usage (no files open)
MSDEV.exe 7,748K
xemacs.exe  7,896K

Then I opened the same ascii text file in each editor (one at a time).
Memory Usage (4689 Byte text file open)
MSDEV.exe 9,512K
xemacs.exe 8,096K

I'd say as far as editors are concerned they are pretty comparable in 
memory footprint.

In addition most Emacs aficionados would consider it much more than an 
editor.  In fact it can be much more that an IDE since you can use it to 
read your email read Usenet etc.

So basically I'm saying that you can't really exclude Visual Studio.
Greg