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hackze 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation

Do you consider GNU Emacs a small package?

dangus 4 months ago | [–]

If a text editor is not smaller than an office suite that handles Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, Word, PowerPoint, and Access databases, I made the right choice never using it.

Seattle3503 4 months ago | | [–]

I don't think they were talking about the size of the codebase. How much funding does emacs require to maintain?

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