Subhan Michael Tindall writes: > Running as a server likely means that you will just move your crash to the > server. But I believe you can run 'emacs - - daemon &' to start the > server in the background, and use emacsclient to connect. See the manual > for more info > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 6:42 AM Marcin Borkowski wrote: > >> >> On 2015-07-20, at 13:28, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> >> 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. >> >> M-x emacs-init-time >> >> (Mine is 55.0 seconds.) >> > Thanks Marcin. I didn't know about that command, and when run it shows my init-time of 60.4 seconds, which does surprise me as it seems longer to me than that. 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