From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some developement questions Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 19:20:08 +0300 Message-ID: <83lg8u770n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87sh36inql.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <8336v6cvem.fsf@gnu.org> <8736v6icgt.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83tvnmb958.fsf@gnu.org> <877ekigiiw.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <837ekhb2me.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhxcbmtr.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83in409lub.fsf@gnu.org> <871sanb71j.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <87k1oeaofu.fsf@ada> <20180825103413.gbm5stsl67j6weow@Ergus> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535213942 20471 195.159.176.226 (25 Aug 2018 16:19:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 16:19:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hw@adminart.net, spacibba@aol.com, flexibeast@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Radon Rosborough Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 25 18:18:57 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ftbH7-0005Ao-Oq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 18:18:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46446 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftbJE-0001GL-1m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 12:21:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50557) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftbIV-00019Q-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 12:20:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftbIS-0003Fw-2Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 12:20:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49422) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ftbIR-0003Fn-U3; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 12:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2160 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ftbIR-0004Ev-H8; Sat, 25 Aug 2018 12:20:19 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Radon Rosborough on Sat, 25 Aug 2018 10:11:38 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228902 Archived-At: > From: Radon Rosborough > Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 10:11:38 -0600 > Cc: flexibeast@gmail.com, hw@adminart.net, Eli Zaretskii , > emacs-devel > > Why bother with the Emacs server when you can just make Emacs start up > as fast as Vim? ;) Not sure if this is a serious question. But if it is, then the answer is clear: because keeping Emacs running at all times means you keep all the stuff that isn't saved to files, like buffers that don't visit files (*scratch* being the most important one of them), various history variables, etc.