Re: MUAs
"Steve Lamb" <morpheus@teleute.ml.org> writes:
> If it is so wonderful, why limit it to the bloated pig called Eight Megs
> and Constantly Swapping? I can name one thing that EMACS can't give me in an
> editor, put it on a rescue disk. For editors, nothing has beaten joe IN MY
> OPINION. I stress that because I don't want this to degenerate into an
> editor war. I don't like EMACS, don't want to install 8-20Mb just for an MUA
> which is a subset of something I don't like, and do not consider it
> reasonable to ask anyone else to do the same.
> Too bad it isn't an MUA but a subset of a bloated editor.
> Too bad it isn't an MUA but a subset of a bloated editor.
Geez Steve. Sorry I said anything...
Yes Emacs could be smaller, but I believe in weighing its
disadvantages (which in your own words is 8MB of RAM and 20MB of HD
space -- less than $30 of resources these days), against its
advantages, which include most of the features you want in an MUA.
For me that's more than a fair trade. For you, it's apparently not.
Anyway, I won't continue this. I really was trying to be helpful, and
I don't need a confrontation.
(FWIW I don't like Tcl *at all*, but I *will* use programs that are
written in it if they serve my needs well.)
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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
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