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From: bkhl@elektrubadur.se (Björn Lindström)
Subject: Re: ISO a fast-loading Emacs
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:05:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zmp8qoo2.fsf@lucien.dreaming> (raw)
In-Reply-To: divp8s$epv$2@reader2.panix.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?

Others have already suggested emacsclient, which in most cases would
be the best solution. On machines with no Emacs, you can often still
use your local Emacs and Tramp.

In the other cases, I like to use nano, with a few options to make it
a bit more like Emacs, something like:

nano -c -k -w

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-17 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-17  9:01 ISO a fast-loading Emacs kj
2005-10-17 10:07 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-10-17 10:24 ` Kaloian Doganov
2005-10-17 13:05 ` Björn Lindström [this message]
2005-10-17 13:31 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-10-17 13:44   ` Lee Sau Dan
     [not found] ` <mailman.11611.1129554667.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-17 13:36   ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-10-17 13:50     ` Björn Lindström
2005-10-17 14:45     ` William Xu
2005-10-17 15:49     ` Max Vasin
2005-10-17 20:14       ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-17 20:32 ` Kenneth Jacker
2005-10-18 16:14 ` Anselm Helbig
2005-10-22  6:19 ` Tim X
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-17 10:00 LENNART BORGMAN

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