From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anselm Helbig Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ISO a fast-loading Emacs Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:14:07 +0200 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <871x2in6pc.wl@nospam.anselm.chemie.fu-berlin.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129653141 19662 80.91.229.2 (18 Oct 2005 16:32:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:32:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 18 18:32:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERuM1-0003to-8N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:30:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERuM0-00086T-Mz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:30:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de hS/hVGMF6SMS4O91N0sHpAlbECSnTQKdqYZNkZTzY917Bxm2uxKrNWVKDw X-Orig-Path: azrael.lygophilia.de!news In-Reply-To: Mail-Followup-To: anselm@chemie.fu-berlin.de User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.11.30 (Wonderwall) Emacs/21.4 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) Microsoft: I'm not laughing anymore. Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:134745 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:30328 Archived-At: kenneth already mentioned zile. i'm still using `jove' ("jonathan's own version of emacs") for quick editing tasks, and in fact, i've been using jove for years before i got started with the real thing. jove is more old fashioned than zile: no color, a silly limit on the length of lines, etc. other choices are `qemacs' (which is said to be good for big files as well, another task you wouldn't want to use gnu emacs for, has utf8-support) and jed (customizable with `slang'). hum, sounds like i should put a function jove { qemacs -nw $*; } in my .bashrc. 8-) and a last option, that has not yet been mentioned: you could work on your `.emacs' to cut down startup time, throw out packages you once played with but never use, and use autoloads for the rest. when i did that, i was able to reduce my startup time from 16s to 4s for the first start (this is on an athlon xp 1600+). it goes further down to 1.4s for following starts because of caching. HTH, anselm