Re: Zile and minimal systems

[Taylan Kammer]

On 08.07.2021 23:52, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Commit da40d07066096a3b5a852041ea01fbb32240deda updates Zile, but this
> new version seems to have little in common with previous ones.  In
> particular, it has more dependencies and a larger footprint:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ guix size zile | tail -1                  # before
> total: 85.7 MiB
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix size zile | tail -1   # after
> total: 126.2 MiB
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Should we provide another Emacs clone in the installation image and in
> ‘%base-packages’?
> 
> ‘zile-on-guile’ is tempting but currently unmaintained.  ‘mg’ could work too.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Ludo’.
> 

I like mg.  It's basically my vi/nano when I do sysadmin-ish work.
One of the first things I install on a server I'll be working on.

Starts up instantly, supports multiple buffers, regexp search,
multiple panes (C-x 2), and a few other nifty Emacs things, even
a tiny Dired-like mode.  Yet it's absolutely tiny at 200K with a
single binary.

Obviously no comparison to the real beast that is Emacs. :-)

Never used Zile so can't say how it compares.

-- 
Taylan