Sure Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping. That would need to be eight hundred megabytes now. What you fail to appreciate is that the power of modern computers has increased faster than the the bloat in Emacs, so in relative terms, Emacs is *less* bloated. If you think its suffered badly, I suspect you've not really used it for a long time. Emacs 22.1 is vastly better than Emacs 19.34.
As with most free software, improvements to Emacs are made by users suggesting improvements or reporting bugs
on the mailing lists. M-x report-emacs-bug is useful for this, and the Emacs manual describes the disciplined
process of making a good bug report. If you just grumble about perceived shortcomings in other forums, then
the chances are, no it won't get fixed.
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For the last three years, I've been developing a debugging mode in Emacs 22 to help make
it more of an IDE. The NEWS entry says:
*** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to
GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but
there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the
state of your program. It can separate the input/output of your program from
that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar. It also uses features of
Emacs 21/22 such as the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate
breakpoints.
Use M-x gdb to start GDB-UI.
I also wrote an on-line article
http://linuxjournal.com/article/7876 a year ago when I thought that Emacs was about to be released. Unfortunately, along with Emacs, my mode is still stuck in the long grass!
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Sure Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping. That would need to be eight hundred megabytes now. What you fail to appreciate is that the power of modern computers has increased faster than the the bloat in Emacs, so in relative terms, Emacs is *less* bloated. If you think its suffered badly, I suspect you've not really used it for a long time. Emacs 22.1 is vastly better than Emacs 19.34.
As with most free software, improvements to Emacs are made by users suggesting improvements or reporting bugs on the mailing lists. M-x report-emacs-bug is useful for this, and the Emacs manual describes the disciplined process of making a good bug report. If you just grumble about perceived shortcomings in other forums, then the chances are, no it won't get fixed.
*** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the state of your program. It can separate the input/output of your program from that of GDB and watches expressions in the speedbar. It also uses features of Emacs 21/22 such as the toolbar, and bitmaps in the fringe to indicate breakpoints.
Use M-x gdb to start GDB-UI.
I also wrote an on-line article http://linuxjournal.com/article/7876 a year ago when I thought that Emacs was about to be released. Unfortunately, along with Emacs, my mode is still stuck in the long grass!