Re: Viminfo for emacs

[Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>]

On 4/10/20 1:42 PM, Perry Smith wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2020, at 2:35 PM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro <oitofelix@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 4/8/20 5:37 PM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote:
>>>> Hi Tim,
>>>> Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> writes:
>>>>> I have recently put together a barebones terminal mode emacs with evil
>>>>> as part of a custom config that starts up at least as fast as vim.
>>>> If eventually your Emacs config becomes heavy, the way to go is running
>>>> Emacs as a server once at system start-up and then use emacsclient
>>>> thereafter.  See (info "(emacs) Emacs Server").
>>> Thanks Bruno. I had thought of that, but can emacs/emacsclient be run
>>> as a terminal app?
>> Sure.  In fact you can have any number of emacsclient instances
>> (text-based and graphical) simultaneously connected to the same emacs
>> server: sharing buffers, settings and functionality.
> On Linux, the default install for emacs uses GTK+.  GTK+ has a bug,
> which is documented in the emacs code somewhere, that you can not
> close the X windows connection.  The fix is to use emacs built with
> Lucid.
>
> So… if you go the route of emacs server but you discover that
> sometimes you emacs server dies for no reason, try switching to the
> Lucid version.
>
> This bites, in particular when you export DISPLAY to another X server
> that is no local.

That's a darn good tip. A preliminary google turns out issues with lucid 
compiles and fontification with version ~24

Do you think that is still an issue with 26.3?

-- 
Tim
tj49.com