Emacs Edit Meaning

1.

"eight megabytes almost continuously swapping"

Huge text editor in unix, long to load but powerfull and apreciated by a large group of programmers. But Vi is faster ans better ... Also known as xemacs with graphics stuff.

I had that file to be edited, didn't have time to open emacs so I started Vi.

2.

The best text-editor of all times. Even better than Vi. Millions of features, and entirely customisable. Not this long to load that Vi-fans would say. Emacs is available on almost every unixbased system you can imagine, and also on Windows. With its tons of keyboard shortcuts and key bindings (also customisable), you will produce code faster you you have ever done

Viis the only text editor I know in which you have to type commands to insert text...