&gt; ps: people, take a look at Emacs, it really is nice, and only needs 8MB <i>cough</i><p>As an Emacs fan, I feel obligated to, ahh, <i>unpack</i> this reference.<p>EMACS: Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. A Humorous Expansion of the name from when eight megabytes of RAM was more than <i>you</i> had, bucko.<p>These days, I&#x27;m sure that, if you really worked at it, you could get an Emacs process to take up as much RAM as the Chrome tab you just opened to look something up on Stack Exchange.