Xref: utzoo comp.editors:1245 gnu.emacs:2100 comp.unix.wizards:20039 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.editors,gnu.emacs,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: GNU Emacs, memory usage, releasing Message-ID: Date: 7 Jan 90 19:54:15 GMT References: <1558@aber-cs.UUCP> <1025@uc.msc.umn.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 17 > GNUemacs is the finest editor ever written. It has more features and > capabilities than any other editor even dreamed of. These two sentences are not necessarily complemantary. Nor are they necessarily opposed to each other. They are orthogonal. For examples in another field of endeavour: "The Caddilac Fleetwood is the finest car ever built. It has more options and carrying capacity than any car ever dreamed of." "The Porsche 959 is the finest car ever built. It has more sophisticated handling and a higher drivable speed than any car ever dreamed of." "The VW Beetle is the finest car ever built. It has more versions and a longer useful life than any car ever dreamed of." "The BMW 750 is the finest car ever built..." -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ Also or \_.--._/ v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'