[Deukhoofd]

> Also note that vim with all its dependencies is ~40 MB, without a GUI

That's mostly just due to vim-runtime though, and the documentation in many different languages. The actual vim executable is around 3 MB.

[tsimionescu]

Can the vim executable run without vim-runtime, or the other shared libaries it installz? I don't know the internal architecture of vim, I am genuinely asking.