On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:26:19 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >Hi Eli, > >> Off the top of my head: >> >> vi >> vim >... > >I was curious. Others might be interested in the result. > > $ expac -S '%m %n' vi vim neovim vis ed emacs acme gedit pluma xed > \ > > geany leafpad kate nano vscode atom | > > sort -n > 106496 ed > 300032 vi > 317440 leafpad > 1076224 vis > 2584576 nano > 3707904 vim > 12306432 xed > 13692928 geany > 15044608 gedit > 20497408 neovim > 21733376 kate > 31233024 pluma > 133710848 emacs > 238760960 atom > $ > An editor is a fundamental tool, so the install size most of the times is more or less irrelevant. For an editor way more important are features and/or easiness of usage. However, the real install size for example a GUI editor, such as e.g. "leafpad", for sure is way larger than that of vim, let alone that it is rendered useless, if only command line is available. $ pacman -Si leafpad gtk2 vim | grep -eName -e Depends Name : leafpad Depends On : gtk2 Name : gtk2 Depends On : atk pango libxcursor libxinerama libxrandr libxi libxcomposite libxdamage shared-mime-info cairo libcups gtk-update-icon-cache librsvg desktop-file-utils Name : vim Depends On : vim-runtime=8.1.2102-1 gpm acl glibc libgcrypt pcre zlib libffi If the target should be a small sized install, then even the current base package might not be the best starting point ;) [1]. Regards, Ralf [1] $ pacman -Qi busybox | grep -eDepends -eSize Depends On : None Installed Size : 1440.00 KiB "BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc." - https://www.busybox.net/about.html
