From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs slow away from home Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:10:36 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8496c582-26be-4701-b3c4-77d668cf7b40@x24g2000pro.googlegroups.com> References: <4C73456B.9080307@smartchat.net.au> <8762z0sain.fsf@rimspace.net> <4C73B592.7070104@smartchat.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291862520 19733 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 02:42:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 02:42:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 03:41:56 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQWSA-0000cZ-Ud for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:41:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38803 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQWS9-0008FV-Vy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:41:54 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!x24g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.73.35.230 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1282655436 19384 127.0.0.1 (24 Aug 2010 13:10:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:10:36 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x24g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.73.35.230; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100701 Firefox/3.5.11,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180928 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76499 Archived-At: On Aug 24, 5:36=A0pm, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Ron House writes: > > On 24/08/10 18:03, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> Ron House =A0writes: : : > > I would suggest ensuring that your host has an entry in /etc/hosts for th= e > hostname you use, though, which should reduce the problem. =A0Alternately= , you > could tune down the DNS lookup time. I remember (some 7-10 years ago) that emacs would simply not start with a broken network setup I dont remember what the correction was (something to do with hosts) but what I do remember was something like this: emacs would refuse to start if the ethernet cable was unplugged. And I was (more or less as you describe): What the hell does emacs have to do with the net side of things?! > > > As it happens, I was trying to edit the files to get the network going > > elsewhere, and the 2 minute delay each time was really funny, in an ann= oying > > fashion. > > All die. =A0Oh, the embarrassment. ;) Sometimes you need vi's help to use emacs <>