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# Emacs isn't bloat. (n)vim is.
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Remember, Nobody knows what's Emacs is, I just say it is a Lisp
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machine emulator. But the GNU Project says it is a text editor. Which
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is true.
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Emacs is written in (src/ directory in the Emacs source tree) C and in
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Lisp (lisp directory in the source tree). The C part contains the
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Emacs core. Which is what Emacs need to work. The Lisp directory has
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the "bloated" things. The basic functionality of the text editor (such
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as (forward-char) and that kind of functions are written in C). If
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thing a Emacs' feature (M-x tetris) is bloat. You can remove
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lisp/play/tetris.el. And the bloat is gone.
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>\>But I have to recompile to remove a feature from Emacs.
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Nope. Most .el(c) files are in /usr/emacs/*/lisp. You can remove
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whatever you want from there. Emacs will work without them.
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Unbloating Emacs is easy, just rm -r some .el files. How easy is it to
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unbloat (n)vim?
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Since it is fully written in C, you have to learn it to figure out
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what to delete. So Vim doesn't stop working. Then you gotta recompile.
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Nvim is a (fork) of vim written in Vimscript, C and extensible in Lua.
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Using an external programming language for extensions is bloat. Emacs
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fixed that using its own programming language, which is also a programming
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language that happens to be very powerful, and allows lots of plugins to be
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written for emacs.
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