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[Orgmode] Re: small emacs for using org on Android
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Scot Becker <address@hidden> writes:
How do I remove unwanted modes? Is it just a case of removing the .el files?
> I'm not the most qualified person to answer this, since I'm only an
> observer to emacs development, but I have some experience trying to
> compile a reduced-size version of Emacs 23, so I'll add my two pence
> until someone can inform you better.
>
> I tried to cut down emacs for my own use (basically, an older laptop
> in which I was running TinyCore linux from RAM, and wanted to put
> emacs+org into RAM as well). I found that GNU Emacs seems not to be
> designed with modularity in mind. In fact, my read of the devel list
> is that the opposite virtue is espoused: reuse existing code where
> possible. Add to this that the program (as I'm sure you know) is
> quite complex. Even if there were a smaller Lisp interpreter, it
> probably would fail at a number of points to do the things that
> org-mode (and the Emacs parts org depends on) needs. In this case, I
> don't think you'll get a smaller engine to drive the same car. Sorry.
>
> What you might have some luck with is slicing away gingerly at your
> existing Emacs distribution. For example, you might try: (1) making
> sure that there are no Lisp source files for libraries which exist as
> byte compiled files (delete blah.el where there is a blah.elc). (2)
> slicing the info documentation down to the bone, and gzipping the
> remainder. (3) removing modes you don't need. This will take some
> experimentation. org-mode won't compile without 'calc' 'calendar' and
> even Gnus, but might run without gnus if you don't need whatever
> feature it borrows. Also, other modes derive from more basic modes or
> other wise re-use other modes' code. So you may run into errors,
> which you'll have to fix by adding the missing pieces back in. (4)
> You can cut out input methods and terminal types you don't need. (5)
> I expect Emacs 22 is smaller than emacs 23, and you may even find that
> Emacs 21 meets your needs, though org-mode apparently has some
> limitations on it.
>
> I suspect that judicious experimental cutting is the only way (aside
> from compression) that you'll get a smaller GNU Emacs and org mode.
> Good luck.
>
> HTH,
> Scot
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:00 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> can anyone recommend a small emacs implementation that will run org?
>> I have Debian running on my G1 phone (see here:
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsOnAndroid),
>> and have been running Emacs 22 on it successfully.
>> However it doesn't leave me much memory for other apps.
>>
>> I have had a look through some of the implementations listed here:
>>
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/EmacsImplementations
>>
>> but it seems that most of them are not full elisp interpreters and so
>> I'm not sure that org-mode will work.
>>
>> --
>> aleblanc
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Hi Scot,
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aleblanc