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   Zenie (zenie@piaille.fr)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 06:37:28 JST Zenie

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   @amszmidt @bshankar @ramin_hal9001 @amoroso @screwtape @sacha
   Emacs was always an editor. But not just an editor.
   Vi is just an editor and not nearly as bloated as vim.

   Vi is lightweight, based on ed. By comparison emacs was huge. But emacs was a lisp programming environment with an editor that happened to be written in itself.

   Computers were much smaller then. A swap drive was actually necessary and changing from one application to another often caused swapping.

   Vi was fast and small. But it is still just an editor.
   It's a misleading comparison, much like VScode vs emacs now. Emacs is svelte these days.