From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Ekstrand Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fast emacs? Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 17:12:03 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <8763fzgz0s.fsf@jehiel.elehack.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242600057 23971 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2009 22:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 22:40:57 +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 00:40:50 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 1M5p2G-0000Vu-Fe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 00:40:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44944 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M5p2F-0001EV-Lb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 18:40:47 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 3k4OpuCxx2rBT/R1RUDefw.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZmgrHQaHDy8mVxKDW32ko/Zrs1U= sha1:4oF/sethq4E63/nXfkb3ny2nniQ= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169265 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:64518 Archived-At: kj writes: > For ***years*** I've been looking for a solution to this problem, > and I'm truly amazed that I have yet to find it: how to get a > fast-starting version of emacs. The problem is that I have a big > .emacs file and a big Emacs desktop, which means that my Emacs takes > forever to start. This 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... > > I just can't believe there is no way around this. (Other than, of > course, using vi.) I frequently use Zile in that context. Bare-bones editor with Emacs keybindings. Great for the odd config file edit from a terminal. - Michael -- mouse, n: A device for pointing at the xterm in which you want to type.