From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Speeding up Emacs load time Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 05:38:17 +0300 Message-ID: <83r4ez2pra.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r4ezdiiy.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87r4ez92ry.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87txjv7gen.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373942390 29600 80.91.229.3 (16 Jul 2013 02:39:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:39:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 16 04:39:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UyvB5-00034l-Uo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 04:39:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38500 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyvB5-0002a6-8O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 22:39:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34263) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyvAu-0002Zx-SE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 22:39:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyvAt-0002Nm-NE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 22:39:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:34501) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyvAt-0002Nc-FJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 22:39:35 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MQ000000CLZ4R00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 05:38:14 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MQ0000GHCNQ0IC0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 05:38:14 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87txjv7gen.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92147 Archived-At: > From: Emanuel Berg > Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:49:04 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Expecting that to somehow miraculously materialize out of thin > > air is not very wise. > > Are you sure that isn't, on the contrary, natural? Yes, I am. > I remember the installation process was a pain in Windows, too. You mean, download a single zip archive and unzip it wherever you want? We must have very different thresholds of pain. > But come to think of it, even moving between Linux distros - not > with Emacs, but in general - can be a pain. So why is it > surprising that it takes an effort to move from Debian to Windows? It is not surprising. The issue here is different: you said Emacs wasn't working the same on Windows as on Unix, and that's simply not true.