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On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 20:40:12 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 11:44:27 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
> 
>> So far I’ve assiduously avoided emacs, but I might have to learn it.
> 
> It’s the Lisp, isn’t it?

Back before terabyte drives it was the size of the executable. emacs was 
about ten times larger than vim. True, vim didn't tell your fortune but 
there was a utility for that.