From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kj Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Fast emacs? Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:05:57 +0000 (UTC) Organization: none Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242669032 13876 80.91.229.12 (18 May 2009 17:50:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 17:50:32 +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 19:50:26 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 1M66yn-0004Hx-Qt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 19:50:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37845 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M66yn-0007dn-Cg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 13:50:25 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1242594357 25005 166.84.1.3 (17 May 2009 21:05:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:05:57 +0000 (UTC) X-No-Confirm: yes User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 X-Original-Bytes: 1724 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169263 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 18 May 2009 13:47:11 -0400 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:64543 Archived-At: For ***years*** I've been looking for a solution to this problem, and I'm truly amazed that I have yet to find it: how to get a fast-starting version of emacs. The problem is that I have a big .emacs file and a big Emacs desktop, which means that my Emacs takes forever to start. This 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... I just can't believe there is no way around this. (Other than, of course, using vi.) 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). Any words of wisdom would be much appreciated! TIA! Kynn -- NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards; and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.