Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/09/10/02:01:10
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Leath Muller wrote:
> A question on emacs: Is there a lite version?
Try this URL:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/alpha/emacs.README
Read that file and get the largest part of the distribution that you can
afford (you can get away with as little as 5MB, but most of the optional
packages won't work). The minimal fully functional installation will rob
you of 20MB of disk space.
> I downloaded 19.34 and it
> seems there is a LOT of crap for stuff like LISP... (who uses this
> anyway... ;) which I don't need or want.
Emacs uses Lisp as its extension language, and all of the packages (like
directory-edit, compilation mode, and the built-in Info reader) load that
Lisp ``crap'' at run time. Since many packages require other packages,
you will never know which ones do you *really* need until you try using
them and get an error message, sometimes a very cryptic one.
If you do try the above distribution, I'd appreciate any feedback,
because it will be a part of the tools the next DJGPP release will
offer. Thanks.
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