From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Slow startup... Date: 24 Mar 2003 20:57:38 GMT Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048540670 21257 80.91.224.249 (24 Mar 2003 21:17:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:17:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 24 22:17:49 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18xZKG-0005Wh-00 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:17:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xZJ3-0000ap-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:16:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!an02.austin.ibm.com!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!newsfeed.btv.ibm.com!news.btv.ibm.com!kgold Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha.watson.ibm.com Original-X-Trace: news.btv.ibm.com 1048539458 31090 9.2.16.245 (24 Mar 2003 20:57:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@btv.ibm.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Mar 2003 20:57:38 GMT X-Newsreader: xrn 9.01 Originator: kgold@watson.ibm.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111355 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7857 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7857 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, -- -- Ken Goldman kgold@watson.ibm.com 914-784-7646