From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: beau@beaucox.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Slow startup... Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 03:29:18 -1000 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E7E7B8E.29421.FD8939C@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048513103 5175 80.91.224.249 (24 Mar 2003 13:38:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 24 14:38:21 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18xS9d-0001LA-00 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:38:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xS7F-0002yn-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 08:35:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xS3x-0000BL-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 08:32:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xS1i-0007vE-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 08:30:12 -0500 Original-Received: from cap175-219-202.pixi.net ([207.175.219.202] helo=beaucox.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xS0u-0007Co-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 08:29:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rocky (207.175.219.206:2096) by beaucox.com with [XMail 1.14 (Linux/Ix86) ESMTP Server] id for from ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 03:29:18 -1000 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-description: Mail message body X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7845 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7845 Hi - I am an emacs newbie - suffering the learning curve... I just installed the latest emacs (21.3.1) on a SuSE 8.1 Linux (X) and am playing with fonts. I _hate_ courier, so I put the following in my .emacs: (set-default-font "lucidasanstypewriter-14") -or- (set-default-font "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r- normal-sans-14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-1") I both cases, emacs thinks about starting up for at least 5 seconds while he expands his window. If I use a 10pt font such as: (set-default-font "lucidasanstypewriter-10") everything is properly quick (and the window does _not_ expand). Now being old, I need my 14pt, but I am spoiled by instaneous response... Is there something else I can set to avoid this reformatting delay? Aloha => Beau; PS: emacs 21.3.1 on my Windows machines (XP and 2000) does not suffer this delay,