Re: Slow startup...

[kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold)]

Unfortunately, I can't fix your font problem.

But as a newbie, you should know that you eventually want to use
either gnuserv/gnuclient or the other client server combination
(?/emacsclient).

What this does is run emacs as a server.  When you want to edit
another file, the client quickly attaches to the server.  You leave
the server running forever.

As you get better at emacs and start loading all sorts of packages,
you will appreciate the client/server model.

beau@beaucox.com writes:
> Hi -
> 
> I am an emacs newbie - suffering the learning
> curve... I just installed the latest emacs
> (21.3.1) on a SuSE 8.1 Linux (X) and am playing
> with fonts. I _hate_ courier, so I put the following
> in my .emacs:
> 
> (set-default-font "lucidasanstypewriter-14")
> 
> -or-
> 
> (set-default-font "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-
> normal-sans-14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-1")
> 
> I both cases, emacs thinks about starting up for at
> least 5 seconds while he expands his window. If
> I use a 10pt font such as:
> 
> (set-default-font "lucidasanstypewriter-10")
> 
> everything is properly quick (and the window does
> _not_ expand). Now being old, I need my 14pt, but
> I am spoiled by instaneous response... Is there
> something else I can set to avoid this reformatting
> delay?
> 
> Aloha => Beau;
> 
> PS: emacs 21.3.1 on my Windows machines (XP and
> 2000) does not suffer this delay,

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Ken Goldman   kgold@watson.ibm.com   914-784-7646