Re: temacs

[Ken Goldman]

On 6/27/2012 5:23 AM, Jambunathan K wrote:
> "John Wiegley"<johnw@newartisans.com>  writes:
>
> > If you built and ran only "temacs" (which gets built when you "make" in the
> > Emacs build tree), I think that would satisfy every desire you ever had for
> > Emacs to be simple -- to a fault.
>
> ISTM there is a perceived need for emacs-lite - may be temacs would be
> the right candidate.  Can temacs be distributed as a binary for various
> platforms.
>
> For git commits, rebases etc I use jemacs as EDITOR.  Can I use temacs
> for such simple editing jobs?
>
> What would the faults be?

The 'fault' would be a fork in emacs.

What's the perceived need?  The executable isn't big by today's 
standards.  If you don't use a feature like email, browser, or debugger, 
it doesn't get in the way.

I use emacs for commits.  It pops up a frame, I add some comments and 
exit.  I can't imagine how it could be simpler.