Outdated stuff in Devs' Handbook

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 2 13:04:44 UTC 2011


On 9/2/11 7:21 AM, Radio młodych bandytów wrote:
> First,
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/emacs.html
> 
> It starts with "Unfortunately, UNIX® systems do not come with the kind
> of
> everything-you-ever-wanted-and-lots-more-you-did-not-in-one-gigantic-package
> integrated development environments that other systems have.", after
> which is a reference to a statement that notes its outdated, but
> nevertheless the line clearly deserves removal.
> 

Agreed.

> Then "Also, you will need a fair amount of memory to run it--I would
> recommend 8MB in text mode and 16MB in X as the bare minimum to get
> reasonable performance."
> It's just funny.
> 

That's why it's called Emacs - Eight megabytes and constantly swapping.
:-)  Nonetheless, this does need to be updated.  Thanks for the report.

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Glen Barber | gjb at FreeBSD.org
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