[SATLUG] Question of the Week

[J. Patrick Lanigan]

Greg Willden wrote:

> 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.

Comparable to what?
# ps aux | grep vi
root     18336  0.0  0.1  1704  552 pts/0    T    17:14   0:00 vi

I just thought that you were missing the intent of the 'Question of the 
week' (which BTW I really enjoy Othniel). You can respond however you 
like, makes no difference to me, but he specifically refers to 'text 
editors' in his original email. I am well aware of the power of emacs 
and vi. I have no first hand knowledge of emacs, as I learned vi first 
and have never been able to commit to learning emacs. But I wouldn't 
mind learning something and am looking forward to any emacs responses to 
the questions posed. Feel free to give the VS equivalents, I'd be 
interested in the key combos for VS as well.

--Patrick