From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU Emacs: Client/Server Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 14:32:45 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040129111259.67CF418B@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <32D82A01-5253-11D8-82BB-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <20040129121313.766CE37D@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040130045855.1A6A92E@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040202092212.C73932E@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040203044651.3E26A31@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040205095216.528FC31@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <20040206053754.30BFC4B@frontend Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076182736 2000 80.91.224.253 (7 Feb 2004 19:38:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 19:38:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 07 20:38:48 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ApYHw-0005bb-00 for ; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 20:38:48 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ApYHw-0003DO-00 for ; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 20:38:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ApYFQ-0000o8-WC for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 14:36:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ApYF6-0000nt-Mu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 14:35:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ApYEa-0000PD-1A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 14:35:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ApYE4-00083t-5u; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 14:34:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1ApYC5-0007oM-4y; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 14:32:45 -0500 Original-To: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" In-reply-to: <20040206053754.30BFC4B@frontend3.messagingengine.com> (devel@member.fsf.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19789 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19789 It makes no sense to write emacsclient in Lisp, because then you would have to start Emacs to run it. Starting Emacs takes a long time. emacsclient is a very small program and does its whole job much faster than an Emacs could start.