Re: ISO a fast-loading Emacs

[Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>]

kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid> writes:

> I have an Emacs session running all the time; each of these sessions
> runs for days or weeks on end, so I'm not concerned about the fact
> that Emacs takes a very long time to get started.
>
> But I also would like to have a fast-loading Emacs (or Emacs clone)
> as the value of my EDITOR variable, so that whenever a program
> requires me to edit text I don't have to wait a long time for the
> auxiliary editor to come up.
>
> Any suggestions?

Either use emacsclient
    export EDITOR=emacsclient
    export VISUAL=emacsclient
    export CVSEDITOR=emacsclient
etc...


or use:
    emacs -q -nw

it takes less than 2 seconds to load on a Athlon 1200 MHz.

If you want to use it in EDITOR:
  ( echo '#!/bin/bash' ; echo 'exec emacs -q -nw' ) > ~/bin/quick-emacs
  export EDITOR=$HOME/bin/quick-emacs
...

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