From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Speeding up Emacs load time Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 21:58:10 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87k3kqnup9.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: <87r4ezdiiy.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87r4ez92ry.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87txjv7gen.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87r4ey3jjd.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374004817 27819 80.91.229.3 (16 Jul 2013 20:00:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:00:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 16 22:00:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UzBQ0-0007ZB-PN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 22:00:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54203 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzBQ0-00053b-7D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:00:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 46 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5tVcYklTZKMdYXR0LJTJc7yW810= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199896 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92162 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Mine looks very similar. And your point is? The black background - *much* less light enters your eyes. But it is not like the light from (for example) the sun, because the light from the monitor (projector in my case) holds information that must be decoded, and, at a fixed distance, while maintaining a high degree of concentration, it makes your eyes not blink - which makes for *dry* eyes. The black background really, really helps. Different faces - seeing, rather than reading, to comprehend - navigating in a file - like, to qualitatively different things, next to each other, should never have the same face - makes it much easier to debug, to. Blinking cursor - popups - nothing should happen unless you do something, because the eye/brain decoder is unprepared (sort of, I know this after years of trial-and-error, I don't pretend to know exactly how it works). In general, being relaxed helps a lot, which is the same for martial arts, boxing, etc. - easier said than done, though. Reaching for the mouse, but even reaching on the keyboard - say, for the F1 etc. keys or the numpad - is a potential *killer*, and I've spent weeks on eradicating that entire situation - because whenever you reach, and fail to get back, you must look down to correct - and when you look *up*, the visual "reorient" can be painful beyond belief. As for typing - lots of great guys had to retire from the game because their fingers for various reasons couldn't take it. The "word on the street" is that poor blood circulation leads to cold fingers, that get stiff, ..., I guess *that* is no more complicated than why you do warm-up before you do something physical. But there is also the eye aspect of typing - if typing is fast, and shortcuts are close, then obviously less *time* is spent using your eyes to solve your task. -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573