From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: emacs -Q option
Date: 09 Feb 2004 18:22:28 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buobro81uaz.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87isighbds.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
> > Is the speed of --help really an issue?
>
> It depends on the purpose of --help: seems it is useful mostly when
> the user wants to start Emacs from the command line and forgets the
> syntax of some options. In this case the speed of --help is really
> important for users.
I'd think in this case, accuracy would be rather _more_ important, as
long as --help isn't `excessively' slow -- and dynamically generating
--help improves accuracy.
As for what `excessively slow' is, my opinion is that 1 second to
display --help on a typical machine would be absolutely fine; 10
seconds, well, maybe that would be too slow.
On my machine:
time emacs --batch -l ~/.emacs -f kill-emacs
takes about 1.5 seconds (due mostly to my huge .emacs file).
-Miles
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-09 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-05 1:42 Proposal: emacs -Q option Kim F. Storm
2004-02-05 1:26 ` Miles Bader
2004-02-05 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-05 8:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-02-05 9:43 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-02-05 11:53 ` Jan D.
2004-02-05 12:41 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-02-05 12:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-05 15:08 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-02-05 14:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-05 7:28 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-09 10:46 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-05 7:29 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-05 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-05 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-07 7:54 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-07 23:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-08 0:20 ` Steven Tamm
2004-02-08 7:19 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-08 16:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-09 7:59 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-09 8:29 ` Miles Bader
2004-02-09 9:04 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-09 9:22 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-02-10 9:46 ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-09 9:38 ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-08 15:21 ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-06 13:42 ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-08 7:12 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-09 9:38 ` Richard Stallman
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2004-02-05 8:42 Bill Wohler
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