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Re: emacs too big for knoppix?
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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Re: emacs too big for knoppix? |
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05 May 2003 06:29:15 -0400 |
jidanni@dman.ddts.net writes:
B> My KNOPPIX "home edition" is 698MB, including RealPlayer8,
B> 3D designer, and virus scanner--- these are all commercial
B> but free download software, not included on the "public
B> edition" CD ISO.
Obviously the young man has his priorities in the wrong place.
perhaps someone will write 3d-designer.el et al...
to attempt to turn this thread into somewhat of a bug report: as i
munge on emacs for vms, and thinking back on efforts to dynamically
link shared object libraries, i wonder if two new elisp-visible
PEEK and POKE (to use the dread basic terminology) instructions for
direct memory access might be useful for implementing emacs the
linker. surely someone can write a semantic bovinator compatible
parser for GNU ld linker scripts; from that, we bootstrap into
wrapping libelf (on ELF systems); from that, emacs can runtime ffi
anything (even easier if headers are also available)...
thi