From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: litchie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to build a smaller emacs Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:59:21 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1190789961.726428.66310@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: <1190710856.061102.35940@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <1190711401.671039.64400@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> <1190712782.176704.157030@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <1190722247.828217.226820@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <1190722664.559710.69980@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190792444 25594 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2007 07:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 26 09:40:40 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 1IaRVe-0001UV-G1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IaRVb-0000W7-D5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:40:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 76 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.46.92.18 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1190789961 7965 127.0.0.1 (26 Sep 2007 06:59:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:59:21 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1190722664.559710.69980@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en) AppleWebKit/522.15.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.3 Safari/522.15.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 JPN-PRXY-08 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=207.46.92.18; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152354 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:47863 Archived-At: On Sep 25, 8:17 pm, weber wrote: > On Sep 25, 9:10 am, weber wrote: > > > > > 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 > > And I shall also mention that my best experience with emacs on windows > is with this package: > > http://www.ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html > > You'll get this EmacsClient working "out of the box". Then you just > need to associate files you want to edit with emacs to the > emacsclientw.exe program and it will be almost immediate. > > And then, sooner or later, you'll also realize that you also don't > need explorer so much, because you got a bunch of modes to help you > quickly open your files from inside emacs (ido, recentf, anything, > ffap, etc) > > bye > -weber Thanks. Today I got help from following link: http://derekslager.com/blog/posts/2007/01/emacs-hack-2-manage-emacs-instances-with-gnuserv.ashx