Re: temacs

[Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>]

On 6/28/2012 4:49 AM, Bastien wrote:
> "John Wiegley"<johnw@newartisans.com>  writes:
>
>> Thus, Emacs is already as simple as you need it to be.  Just don't load
>> anything in your .emacs.
>
> Which points at the trap many newbies fall in: adding to many stuff to
> their .emacs.  Some of them are just experimental, then get forgotten,
> then you wake up one day wondering why launching Emacs takes too long.

I think you've defined the wrong trap - starting emacs every time you 
want to edit a file and then complaining that launching takes too long.

If anything, perhaps it should be easier to install and use 
client-server emacs.  Windows programs (Firefox, Office, ...) do that by 
default.

I have many years of accumulated code in my .emacs.  I load all kinds of 
packages, some that I rarely use.  It doesn't matter.  I start emacs 
once every few months, so 10 seconds doesn't matter at all.