From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Axon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: set-default-font slow Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:37:43 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87eic1sk7c.fsf@wagner.bayreuth> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291952455 30627 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 03:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 04:40:47 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 1PQtqc-00006Z-Am for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:40:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57391 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQtoF-00038b-3e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:38:15 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Injection-Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:37:44 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="R6tqC3DCj8T07PmevEr0NQ"; logging-data="2586"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/6jONZ4Vv5RVohcFLQUaKKovWfdcwMem8=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fQyo/gPCtglxiCr6U/uF9bi6QMo= sha1:cJnO/RJ3XUSkL/lCqYJklLCjINs= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181678 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:23:30 -0500 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:77283 Archived-At: Hi, I have the following line in my ~/.emacs (set-default-font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-13-120-*-*-c-70-*-*") However emacs is quite slow to startup and it is caused by this line because when commented out it starts up quickly. Any possible solutions? I am using version 22. -- Peter