XEmacs - Still resisting the dark side The other day, I had been contemplating changing to a fancier text editor. Though I do little programming now, I still find a need for a programmer's editor as I will be frequently writing simple scripts or processing csv files created by Microsoft Excel or log files. The other editor that I am familiar with is JEdit , which I had used for a brief period and have even contributed a macro . It had a good GUI, syntax highlighting for numerous programming languages and scripts, searching capability, plugin support, extensibility and so on. But, the one point it faltered was on the memory usage side. Just opening the editor took away a good 40MB of my scarce RAM. I guess it needed the memory to display those fancy icons and GUI controls. XEmacs in comparison, ends up using less than 10MB and is way faster too. Some indispensable commands Over the course of time, I have started relying on a few commands, so useful that I use them almost daily. You
If you've read the Harry Potter series of books, you would probably know what a Pensieve is... To the rest, a Pensieve is a magical device that can store one's thoughts, categorize and interlink facts for later retrieval. This blog contains my thoughts, mostly to archive what I’ve learnt, to look back later. With my being in a technical industry, expect thoughts to be inclined towards my area of work.