From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: $EDITOR to open at file end? Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 23:14:20 -0600 Message-ID: <20150308231111705300644@bob.proulx.com> References: <20150308170959263276762@bob.proulx.com> <877fuqevaw.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425878087 16399 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2015 05:14:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 05:14:47 +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 Mar 09 06:14:42 2015 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 1YUq1Z-00073O-97 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 06:14:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41504 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YUq1Y-0002Ky-93 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 01:14:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50929) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YUq1K-0002Kj-OR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 01:14:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YUq1G-0002D7-L0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 01:14:26 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:41977) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YUq1G-0002D0-EF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 01:14:22 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F732182B for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2015 23:14:21 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 180A32DC45; Sun, 8 Mar 2015 23:14:20 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877fuqevaw.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 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:103086 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > $ time emacs -f kill-emacs > > real 0m0.155s > > user 0m0.128s > > sys 0m0.024s > > > > Emacs can really be quite fast! > > Fair enough. I also use a minimalist init file that loads quickly. My > Emacs doesn't start that quickly though, but that's probably because I > don't have an SSD. That is the warm cache performance and is independent of whether it is an SSD or spinning media. SSDs only help for the cold cache performance. My cold cache load on an SSD is about 1.5 seconds. My cold cache load on spinning media is around 6-7 seconds. > Anyway, if you've got that tuned you don't need to worry about emacs > vs emacsclient. Lots of people who use Emacs, especially new users, > seem to have huge init files, I was assuming you were one of those. I would expect newcomers to have small init files. It is us old timers that have collected up much lint in them over the years. I have been using Emacs since version 18. Bob