Rusi writes: > On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 6:12:31 PM UTC+5:30, Barry Fishman wrote: >> On 2015-07-20 12:28:26 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> > Emanuel Berg writes: >> >> Sharon Kimble writes: >> >> >> >>> I've been thinking about running emacs as a daemon >> >>> to quicken my loadup times and also able to recover >> >>> quickly when emacs crashes and restarts. But how? >> >> 1. Does your Emacs really take that long to start? >> > >> > 'fraid so! I've never actually timed it, but I am sitting waiting for it >> > to be in a useable state. >> >> >> >> 2. In which situations does it crash? >> > >> > Usually when I'm writing in latex, and suddenly, in the blink of an eye, >> > its gone! So far I haven't lost any data on restarting. but it is an >> > annoyance. > > I suggest (as a debugging device) to give up on server daemon etc, > just start emacs normally from a shell until it 'crashes'. > When it does is there any shell message? Will do. Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian 8.0, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 24.5.50.3