From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: weber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to build a smaller emacs Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:10:47 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1190722247.828217.226820@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> References: <1190710856.061102.35940@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <1190711401.671039.64400@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> <1190712782.176704.157030@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190724090 14928 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2007 12:41:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:41:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 25 14:41:26 2007 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 1Ia9iO-0002LK-JZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:40:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ia9iL-0003lW-K6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:40:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 46 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.21.201.198 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1190722248 20185 127.0.0.1 (25 Sep 2007 12:10:48 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:10:48 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1190712782.176704.157030@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 fw.datacom-telematica.com.br:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE6) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=201.21.201.198; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152332 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:47838 Archived-At: On Sep 25, 6:33 am, litchie wrote: > On Sep 25, 5:10 pm, Jason Rumney wrote: > > > On 25 Sep, 10:00, litchie wrote: > > > > Hi, All > > > > I want to build a smaller emacs, I mean the executable emacs.exe. > > > Currently it is around 27M.. > > > > I hope to reduce it to a smaller size so as to hope it can start > > > faster. > > > Are you sure that it is the Emacs executable that is loading slowly, > > and not things loaded from your .emacs? How quickly does emacs start > > when you start it as "emacs -Q" from the command line? > > Yes, it is fast now, since my .emacs is almost empty, not loading any > other packages. > However, I would be very glad if it can be as fast as notepad :) > I searched the web, but no result. Looks that people do not care about > this problem. I had that concern when I was a beginner using emacs too. That happens because you're used to close your editor after you make some modifications to a file. That is not how most emacs users use emacs. Instead you keep it running for as long as your machine is on, and you can use a 'server' to open files from Explorer (i presume you're using windows, since you mentioned notepad) Maybe you will gain some insight from this: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsClient "EmacsClient allows one to open a file for editing in an already running Emacs. Because it doesn't start a new Emacs instance at each invocation, you can setup EmacsClient as the default editor ..." Alternatively, I recently found a cool piece of software called qemacs that is a "quick emacs", but it probably doesn't extend with lisp, so you would be missing most of the cool functionality. Hope this could help, weber