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From: woan@peyote.cactus.org (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU emacs size
Summary: if you don't need it don't include it.
Message-ID: <367@peyote.cactus.org>
Date: 6 Feb 90 05:30:41 GMT
References: <1009@abvax.UUCP>
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas Unix Society, Austin, TX
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In article <1009@abvax.UUCP>, jaz@calvin writes:
> I have to agree with ??? in article 7060 regarding the size of
> GNU emacs. When you are running under a window system like X, I don't
> think you really need the debugger, news, and mail in your editor. 
> They should at least be options.

All of those things are already optional. Just don't load up temacs with 
all those stuff, and call them only when used. Ver. 19 and epoch to a
certain degree should satisfy most X-Window system users' biggest
complaint of size because they have multiple X-Window support. If you
don't like the Zippy quotes, just kill them out of the etc directory and
get rid of the yow elisp files. I like the fact that EMACS comes shipped
with just about everything a person could want and lets the system 
administrator install what he likes.

					Ron

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