From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fast emacs?
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 22:38:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <KMCdnWUDSbCoRY3XnZ2dnUVZ_t-dnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <guqifb$985$1@reader1.panix.com>
kj wrote:
> In <7a909198-c1e9-4ac1-aa69-94ba302deadc@u9g2000pre.googlegroups.com> Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On May 18, 5:05=A0am, kj <so...@987jk.com.invalid> wrote:
>>> =A0The problem is that I have a big
>>> .emacs file and a big Emacs desktop, which means that my Emacs takes
>>> forever to start. =A0This 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...
>
>> emacs -Q
>
> I've gotten some very useful ideas in this thread (thanks Anselm,
> Michael, and Giorgios), but this one actually blew me away. In
> all my years using emacs (decades really) I never knew of this
> command-line switch. In fact, after rummaging through the man page
> and the emacs docs, I was not able to find it. But it works like
> gangbusters. Thanks!
>
> kynn
Just like the spaghetti sauce "it's in theya":
C-h r m intial options
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-18 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-17 21:05 Fast emacs? kj
2009-05-17 21:39 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-05-18 1:13 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-05-18 11:03 ` Bernardo
2009-05-18 11:29 ` ken
2009-05-17 22:12 ` Michael Ekstrand
2009-05-18 0:16 ` Jason Rumney
2009-05-18 2:51 ` kj
2009-05-18 3:38 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
2009-05-18 18:05 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-21 10:04 ` Christian Herenz
2009-08-02 15:28 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-02 20:34 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-13 8:50 ` Cecil Westerhof
2009-10-13 13:17 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-10-16 10:28 ` Cecil Westerhof
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-18 5:43 Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
[not found] <mailman.7364.1242625447.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-18 8:15 ` Tim X
2009-05-20 10:04 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2009-05-20 13:24 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2009-05-20 16:54 ` thierry.volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.7547.1242838889.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-21 6:20 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2009-05-21 9:49 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-21 15:08 ` thierry.volpiatto
2009-05-21 10:13 ` Hugo Heden
2009-05-21 10:29 ` Lennart Borgman
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