From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Speeding up Emacs load time Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:08:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r4ezdiiy.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <83zjtn3jy3.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373904564 25755 80.91.229.3 (15 Jul 2013 16:09:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:09:24 +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 Jul 15 18:09:25 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UylL3-0006Fk-AL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:09:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46984 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UylL2-0008Bb-RO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58487) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UylKq-00089n-Ni for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:09:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UylKl-0007jq-FW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:09:12 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UylKl-0007jg-98 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UylKj-00060i-Fw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:09:05 +0200 Original-Received: from 169.15.137.27 ([169.15.137.27]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:09:05 +0200 Original-Received: from david by 169.15.137.27 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:09:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.15.137.27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1299999999999999 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Uy16d3QXwKtiwbKweCsvx+4sndU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92139 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Emanuel Berg >> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:06:45 +0200 >> >> Emacs on Windows is *not* the same. > > Yes, it is. I'm guessing that the above is due to the fact that you > missed many external programs that Emacs invokes to provide some of > its features. Those programs exist in Windows ports, but you need to > install them first (they are not part of the Emacs binary distro). RIght, emacs and cygwin, working together, running in an Xwindow, feels just like being on my Ubunutu box. First thing I do at every new job is install a copy of cygwin, so I can pretend I'm in linux. Have to have my bash shell and Emacs.