From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fast emacs? Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:50:45 +0200 Message-ID: <87aazvllsq.fsf@Traian.DecebalComp> References: <87bpmy8cbz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255507211 22083 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2009 08:00:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:00:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 14 10:00:02 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 1Mxym7-0001S5-Gm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:59:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38036 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mxym7-0006Ak-75 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:59:59 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AIdoeC9XDV7pqsQcJPEP1QZmLWA= Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.53.123.169 Original-X-Trace: 1255423846 news.xs4all.nl 83249 decebal/[::ffff:84.53.123.169]:19553 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173825 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:56:58 -0400 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:68944 Archived-At: David Kastrup 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), > > C-x C-f /sudo::/etc/fstab RET Nice one. Only the first time I use it, it take some time. When I do it a second time, it is quit fast.