From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kj Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fast emacs? Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 02:51:24 +0000 (UTC) Organization: none Message-ID: References: <7a909198-c1e9-4ac1-aa69-94ba302deadc@u9g2000pre.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242669085 14047 80.91.229.12 (18 May 2009 17:51:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 17:51:25 +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 19:51:18 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 1M66ze-0004jg-CA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 19:51:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38422 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M66zd-00084T-QR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 13:51:17 -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: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1242615084 9477 166.84.1.3 (18 May 2009 02:51:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 02:51:24 +0000 (UTC) X-No-Confirm: yes User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 X-Original-Bytes: 1801 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169271 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 18 May 2009 13:47:48 -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:64544 Archived-At: 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 -- NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards; and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.