From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fast emacs? Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 17:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <7a909198-c1e9-4ac1-aa69-94ba302deadc@u9g2000pre.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242607246 5563 80.91.229.12 (18 May 2009 00:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 00:40:46 +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 May 18 02:40:39 2009 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 1M5quE-0004RA-ST for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 02:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36055 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M5quE-0002mI-9y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 20:40:38 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u9g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.4.103.130 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242605806 19435 127.0.0.1 (18 May 2009 00:16:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 00:16:46 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u9g2000pre.googlegroups.com; posting-host=61.4.103.130; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 rndgate.rnd.clarion.com.my:8080 (squid/2.5.STABLE6) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169269 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:64521 Archived-At: On May 18, 5:05=A0am, kj wrote: > =A0The problem is that I have a big > .emacs file and a big Emacs desktop, which means that my Emacs takes > forever to start. =A0This is fine most of the time, but occasionally > I want a fast-starting emacs session (e.g. when I run "sudo emacs" > to edit a superuser-owned config file), and it's infuriating to > wait for emacs to go through a lengthy and useless song-and-dance... emacs -Q