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Minimal Emacs?
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I should have clarified - the configure script is only for stuff built in to the C source code. It won't get rid of the games and whatnot, but remove support for things like sound, graphics formats, bignums, etc.
I suppose you could try deleting stuff out of /usr/share/emacs, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Huh. I'll try the fork that someone else suggested then.
If you're talking about Microemacs, it's not a fork. It's unrelated to GNU Emacs. The name Emacs has a long twisted history going back to PDP-10 machines so you'll find various text editors with "Emacs" in their name.
The only active fork of GNU Emacs I know of off the top of my head is Remacs, which is a project to replace the C code in Emacs with Rust. It's probably not what you're looking for.
Honestly, I think you're overestimating the impact of the "bloat" in Emacs. Emacs starts up with a very minimal set of features (compared to what is available) and doesn't really push any of that on you. If you turn off the menu bar (which I don't recommend), you'd have to search for it intentionally to find it.
Bear in mind that GNU Emacs is not a text editor. GNU Emacs has a text editor. It's a platform for Lisp applications. The text editor is just what you get by default when you don't ask for anything else.