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Emacs may need to be renamed to stEmacs, sixteen megs and constantly swapping. It's no longer 8 megs. :(

If you want tiny gnu editor, just use nano. They fixed the file corruption bug right?

There is also GNU zile and zemacs[0].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/

If you want actually tiny gnu editor, use ed.

I use it fairly regularly and the lack of any distracting UI is a fresh breeze compared to the overloaded editors out there.

I wouldn't know if nano fixed a file corruption bug or not. I use emacs.

I don't think the 8-meg phrase was ever the official name of the program that "emacs" stands for.

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