Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Gmail eats Python Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:42:59 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <201507251634.t6PGYUvo028820@fido.openend.se> <87d1zgyqgb.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <228d9572-6cff-4f89-bd68-e31ecbb8e46a@googlegroups.com> <327a9975-b079-4d44-998d-0d1168ba7a59@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1437925379 3120 24.118.110.103 (26 Jul 2015 15:42:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:42:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:94634 On 2015-07-26, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: >> Well Almost. >> >> Emacs used to stand for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" >> At a time when 8 MB was large. Is it today? >> So let me ask you: [...] >> If you have one app to do them all, I'd like (and pay!) for it >> If not I bet they are mutually inconsistent. > > For the most part, I use a single text editor. But all their > ancillary tools are separate. Emacs tries to be absolutely > everything, not just editing text files; that's why it's big. Size > isn't just a matter of disk or RAM footprint, it's also (and much > more importantly) UI complexity. > > It's a trade-off, of course. If you constantly have to switch programs > to do your work, that's a different form of UI complexity. There's always Eclipse, where you spend 30% of your time trying to get plugins to work, 30% upgrading it, 30% trying to figure out why a project somebody else created won't work for you, and 10% shopping for more RAM. -- Grant