Best editor?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Mike Meyer wrote:

>> Yup, that's why emacs stands for Eighty Megabytes And Constantly
>> Swapping.  ;-)
>
> Gee, it's changed from eight to eighty. Probably because eight is a
> small app by todays standards. Then again, it's not like 80 is large
> these days.

my emacs starts in no time at all, and consumes just under 6 megs with python-
mode and a couple of moderately-sized python modules in memory.  that's just
over 1% of the available memory on this stock hardware.

guess my emacs is broken.

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