From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fast emacs? Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 22:38:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7a909198-c1e9-4ac1-aa69-94ba302deadc@u9g2000pre.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242618050 23812 80.91.229.12 (18 May 2009 03:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 03:40:50 +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 05:40:43 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 1M5tiV-0007lg-1r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 05:40:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38530 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M5tiU-0005VH-Ay for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 23:40:42 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!novia!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 22:38:28 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.130.91 Original-X-Trace: sv3-ktPRIbnZRE3cPUKGnHQegoMhqzYE3N50zAerYzutatXSllEJvdT+xTwfClap9PJsvYvbHZVfWoFLGl0!OKML+lbRss8ooz7tbo+Jtl1V1bQHrP2lgJuMBunPCg8iY6zkEU7X91942kjvd8ipO+YI4D6ZVEGH!c8WYGc+01h3u0tx8lOjokKHy2Dq36Q== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169272 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:64523 Archived-At: kj wrote: > In <7a909198-c1e9-4ac1-aa69-94ba302deadc@u9g2000pre.googlegroups.com> Jason Rumney writes: > >> On May 18, 5:05=A0am, kj wrote: >>> =A0The problem is that I have a big >>> .emacs file and a big Emacs desktop, which means that my Emacs takes >>> forever to start. =A0This is fine most of the time, but occasionally >>> I want a fast-starting emacs session (e.g. when I run "sudo emacs" >>> to edit a superuser-owned config file), and it's infuriating to >>> wait for emacs to go through a lengthy and useless song-and-dance... > >> emacs -Q > > I've gotten some very useful ideas in this thread (thanks Anselm, > Michael, and Giorgios), but this one actually blew me away. In > all my years using emacs (decades really) I never knew of this > command-line switch. In fact, after rummaging through the man page > and the emacs docs, I was not able to find it. But it works like > gangbusters. Thanks! > > kynn Just like the spaghetti sauce "it's in theya": C-h r m intial options