Re: [Bug-zile] Updated Zile Homepage

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Reuben,

On Mar 17, 2014, at 2:08 PM, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 17 March 2014 01:04, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> Zmacs is aimed at quick editing sessions in resource constrained 
>> environments where a configurable and extensible editor is still required.
>> 
> I'd say that's less what it's "aimed at", and more what it's good for.
> 
> There's an elephant in the room of my making here: when I get back to 
> programming after Lent I'm going to retry an experiment that weirdly didn't 
> work last time I tried a couple of years ago, to get a minimal build of 
> Emacs. Emacs already fulfils the performance requirements of Zile on a 
> typical desktop or laptop, but the minimal Debian packages you can install 
> still add up to 100Mb. If it were possible to install in something more like 
> the size of vim-tiny (~1Mb), then I'd be happy for it to replace Zile Is 
> Lossy Emacs, and we really would have decoupled that old project from the new 
> Zile Implements Lua Editors.

Right.  And that's a good thing :)

But we must be careful not to conflate C Zile with Lua Zmacs here.  And Zmacs 
is clearly useful as more than an exercise in programming, or even just as an 
example of what Lua Zile (the toolkit) is capable of... but I'm struggling to 
capture that succinctly in just a sentence or two.

Suggestions?

> My post-Lent TODO list is already 27 items long.

Can't resist a little Monty Python here: "Oooo... that's favouritism that is!  
What wouldn't I give for a TODO list only 27 items long? I sometimes hang awake 
at night dreaming of a TODO list only 27 items long! You lucky, lucky, 
jammy..." *ahem*.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

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