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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:52:48 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr80egb4k.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ngeqob.n7.ln@acm.acm

> Some of us actually have to pay for our electricity.  Some of us care
> that leaving a computer running continuously spews carbon dioxide into
> the atmosphere (fuelling global warming) and creates radioactive waste.
> We switch our computers off when not in use.  I often boot my computer
> several times a day.

Why not `suspend' it ?
[ Incidentally: does anybody here have experience configuring a Linux
  desktop machine to behave "a bit like a laptop" and turn off its drive
  when not used, ...
  This is not only to save power but to save my ears as well.  ]

> But I don't like leaving Emacs running, even when my PC is on.  You see,
> jit-lock runs continuously in the background, consuming vast amounts of
> CPU usage, thus contributing even more to global warming, et al.

Not continuously: only until it's all been re-font-lock'd.
And if you don't like it, you can turn off the background jit-locking
by setting jit-lock-stealth-time to nil.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-11 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3343.1068146343.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-06 23:45 ` Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-07  4:10 ` Bruce Ingalls
2003-11-07  9:08 ` roodwriter
2003-11-07 16:58   ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-07 18:35     ` roodwriter
2003-11-08 18:01   ` roodwriter
2003-11-11 10:48     ` Oliver Scholz
2003-11-07 11:27 ` Gareth Rees
2003-11-07 14:06   ` Adam Hardy
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3403.1068214062.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-07 14:28     ` David Kastrup
2003-11-07 16:54   ` Dan Anderson
2003-11-07 17:19   ` Rob Thorpe
     [not found]   ` <mailman.0.1068227823.2005.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-07 17:45     ` Jody M. Klymak
2003-11-07 18:20       ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-07 19:37       ` Dan Anderson
     [not found]       ` <mailman.11.1068237562.2005.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-07 22:17         ` Jody M. Klymak
2003-11-08  1:22           ` Jesper Harder
2003-11-08  3:23           ` Kin Cho
2003-11-08 10:34             ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-08 13:20               ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-08 20:06               ` David Kastrup
2003-11-08 21:45                 ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-08 22:02                   ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-09  3:20               ` Kin Cho
2003-11-12  5:15               ` David Masterson
2003-11-12  8:12                 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-11-12 18:21                 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2003-11-13 19:54                   ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-23  8:08               ` Tim X
2003-11-08 23:15           ` Joe Fineman
2003-11-10 15:59           ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-10 20:58             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-10 21:00             ` Burton Samograd
2003-11-11 10:34               ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-11 14:32                 ` Jesper Harder
2003-11-11 17:00                   ` Burton Samograd
2003-11-11 17:00                 ` Burton Samograd
2003-11-11 20:04                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-08 10:15         ` Oliver Scholz
2003-11-08 12:03           ` Orm Finnendahl
2003-11-08  1:28       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-08 14:09       ` Ole Laursen
2003-11-23  8:02       ` Tim X
2003-12-07 15:56       ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-11-07 18:09 ` Reiner Steib
2003-11-07 18:37   ` lawrence mitchell
2003-11-08 17:06     ` Reiner Steib
2003-11-07 23:41 ` Edward Dodge
2003-11-10 16:04   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-10 21:17     ` kgold
2003-11-11 10:43       ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-11 15:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-11 15:52         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-11-11 17:35           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-12  7:25             ` Lars Brinkhoff
     [not found]             ` <mailman.197.1068625639.2005.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-12 10:22               ` Colin Marquardt
2003-11-12 11:15                 ` David Kastrup
2003-11-12 13:47                   ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] <E1AIRNX-0002YI-H9@monty-python.gnu.org>
2003-11-08 22:01 ` Joe Corneli
     [not found] <E1AI57v-00032q-9p@monty-python.gnu.org>
2003-11-07 14:31 ` Joe Corneli
2003-11-06 19:18 Dan Anderson

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