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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


  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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