emacs slowly displaying files

emacs slowly displaying files

[mzp]

Hello,
On Mac os x 10.5.7 with emacs 22.1.1
when I open a file with e.g. emacs -nw .cshrc it does not display the file
but comes with message "Welcome to Gnu Emacs ..." etc message. The file only
shows when I do C-l or without prompting after a minute or so. It's not a
big deal but a bit annoying.
What to do to have it show the file without extra prompts from the buffer?
Thanks,
Mark
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Re: emacs slowly displaying files

[Tassilo Horn]

mzp <mzp3769@yahoo.com> writes:

Hi Mark,

> when I open a file with e.g. emacs -nw .cshrc it does not display the
> file but comes with message "Welcome to Gnu Emacs ..." etc
> message. The file only shows when I do C-l or without prompting after
> a minute or so. It's not a big deal but a bit annoying.

I think this will do the trick:

  (setq inhibit-startup-screen t)

> What to do to have it show the file without extra prompts from the
> buffer?

Generally I'd say the best way in using emacs is starting it as usual,
then firing up the server (M-x server-start) and then using "emacsclient
<file>" to open a file from a shell or file manager.

,----[ (info "(emacs)Emacs Server") ]
|    You can solve this problem by setting up Emacs as an "edit server",
| so that it "listens" for external edit requests and acts accordingly.
`----

Bye,
Tassilo
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Re: emacs slowly displaying files

[mzp]

Hi Tasillo,
I put  (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) into .emacs but that does not help.
Thanks,
Mark


Tassilo Horn-5 wrote:
> 
> mzp <mzp3769@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
>> when I open a file with e.g. emacs -nw .cshrc it does not display the
>> file but comes with message "Welcome to Gnu Emacs ..." etc
>> message. The file only shows when I do C-l or without prompting after
>> a minute or so. It's not a big deal but a bit annoying.
> 
> I think this will do the trick:
> 
>   (setq inhibit-startup-screen t)
> 
>> What to do to have it show the file without extra prompts from the
>> buffer?
> 
> Generally I'd say the best way in using emacs is starting it as usual,
> then firing up the server (M-x server-start) and then using "emacsclient
> <file>" to open a file from a shell or file manager.
> 
> ,----[ (info "(emacs)Emacs Server") ]
> |    You can solve this problem by setting up Emacs as an "edit server",
> | so that it "listens" for external edit requests and acts accordingly.
> `----
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> -- 
>      My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: emacs slowly displaying files

[Colin S. Miller]

mzp wrote:
> Hello,
> On Mac os x 10.5.7 with emacs 22.1.1
> when I open a file with e.g. emacs -nw .cshrc it does not display the file
> but comes with message "Welcome to Gnu Emacs ..." etc message. The file only
> shows when I do C-l or without prompting after a minute or so. It's not a
> big deal but a bit annoying.
> What to do to have it show the file without extra prompts from the buffer?
> Thanks,
> Mark

Does
emacs -no-init-file
help?

If so then there is something in your .emacs that is slowing emacs down.

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Re: emacs slowly displaying files

[mzp]

Ok, problem seems solved. I transferred my alias for emacs from other mac and
I had emacs set to  'emacs --no-site-file'. That slowed it down on this mac
(works ok on another that is 10.4.*). Why  -no-site-file slows it down is
hard to say?
Thanks for suggestions,
Mark


Colin S. Miller-2 wrote:
> 
> mzp wrote:
>> Hello,
>> On Mac os x 10.5.7 with emacs 22.1.1
>> when I open a file with e.g. emacs -nw .cshrc it does not display the
>> file
>> but comes with message "Welcome to Gnu Emacs ..." etc message. The file
>> only
>> shows when I do C-l or without prompting after a minute or so. It's not a
>> big deal but a bit annoying.
>> What to do to have it show the file without extra prompts from the
>> buffer?
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
> 
> Does
> emacs -no-init-file
> help?
> 
> If so then there is something in your .emacs that is slowing emacs down.
> 
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Re: emacs slowly displaying files

[Kevin Rodgers]

mzp wrote:
> Ok, problem seems solved. I transferred my alias for emacs from other mac and
> I had emacs set to  'emacs --no-site-file'. That slowed it down on this mac
> (works ok on another that is 10.4.*). Why  -no-site-file slows it down is
> hard to say?

`M-x find-library RET site-start RET' will show you the file that is
speeding emacs up.  :-)

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