Re: Lightweight Emacs for container?

From	Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Lightweight Emacs for container?
Date	2024-05-07 06:10 +0200
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On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 6:45 PM Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <bg271828@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I usually use Emacs on full-blown Debian distributions, so I don't pay
> much attention to how large it is. But I'm now starting to
> play around with lightweight LXC containers, obviously headless, and would
> like to keep using Emacs in these, but just for basic
> text editing and so forth, I don't need a whole IDE environment. But to my
> surprise, even emacs-nox is a gigantic installation,
> that even wants to pull in MySQL, for heaven's sake.
>
> Is there some package, or a simple workaround, that will allow me to use a
> basic Emacs without all the cruft?
>

To expand on what Stefan said, see <
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsImplementations>.

And you can build it from sources, and really leave out the stuff you don't
want: <https://superuser.com/q/617468>.

Jeff

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Lightweight Emacs for container? "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> - 2024-05-06 21:40 +0200
  Re: Lightweight Emacs for container? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-05-06 22:30 +0200
    Re: Lightweight Emacs for container? Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2024-05-06 23:00 +0200
    Re: Lightweight Emacs for container? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-05-07 06:30 +0200
  Re: Lightweight Emacs for container? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-05-06 22:40 +0200
  Re: Lightweight Emacs for container? Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-05-07 06:10 +0200

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