From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fast emacs? Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 18:15:16 +1000 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87zlda6d4b.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242636056 32025 80.91.229.12 (18 May 2009 08:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 08:40:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 18 10:40:49 2009 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 4.50) id 1M5yOt-00082B-O0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 10:40:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56795 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M5yOt-0008G8-12 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 04:40:47 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IshzmYOA8m44bhFVbBTahvnhO48= Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 4e80e746.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=Qk9; 785if_?RI=Qc=OLNJ2L?0kYOcDh@:; >GTR`=ZX:27MW>UB@=5>>eOG9lRLi^5; :of>_ULdke8 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169277 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:64527 Archived-At: "Dirk-Jan C. Binnema" writes: >> > Note that using the emacsclient is no solution, because this requires >> > that a version of Emacs be already running, which often defeats >> > the purpose (not only do I have to wait another eternity for this >> > new Emacs session to start, but then I have to start the server in >> > the new session). > > Well, maybe you'd need to take another look at emacs --daemon ;-) I have > run it when my (X) *session* starts (no need for tricks to put it in > system startup scripts). Emacs starts within a cpl of seconds (1000 line > .emacs). > > Then for the rest of the day I use emacsclient -c; lightning fast. > > With emacs --daemon all the trimming, autoloading etc becomes much less > important. > > Best wishes, > Dirk. Emacs daemon mode is great, but only available with emacs 23. However, another point I wanted to mention. There is no need to do sudo emacs to edit a file as root. You can do this from within your normal running emacs using tramp. 'su' will work too. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au