From: Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Setting up Emacs as the default editor
Date: 01 Dec 2003 14:44:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vfwu9g38dm.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2d6b8sklp.fsf@bitstream.net
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:
Tim> Klaus Zeitler <kzeitler+usenet@gsm-mailhost.de.lucent.com>
Tim> writes:
>> BTW I wouldn't recommend setting EDITOR to emacs
Tim> Why not?
It's a pain. Emacs gets invoked by all sorts of applications, and
Emacs generally has a bad start up time (depending on how fat your
.emacs gets of course).
Much better to set it to gnuclient, or emacsclient, or some such. Then
you can have a single Emacs with lots of buffers.
Cheers
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-01 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-30 17:02 Setting up Emacs as the default editor Dan Anderson
2003-12-01 8:50 ` Klaus Zeitler
2003-12-01 14:01 ` Tim McNamara
2003-12-01 14:44 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2003-12-01 16:03 ` Dan Anderson
2003-12-01 16:40 ` Phillip Lord
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