From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Speeding up Emacs load time Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:37:43 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87r4ezdiiy.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87r4ez92ry.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87txjv7gen.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87r4ey3jjd.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87k3kqnup9.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374010817 27802 80.91.229.3 (16 Jul 2013 21:40:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 21:40:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 16 23:40:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UzCyo-00087E-S4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:40:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59992 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzCyn-0004qV-V0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:40:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2b4d99857b7659717d3b28a24c766d4c"; logging-data="8039"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19QmXEA28nxJnRdi3NPD46vZNuKkLk2Uxc=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:srhLyLqnFRFSvqxAmi7sESU7t40= sha1:VS9GTecQ6Tb5L14j/IPPBqylUvU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199904 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92170 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov writes: > Emanuel Berg writes: > >> The black background - *much* less light enters your eyes. But it >> is not like the light from (for example) the sun, because the >> light from the monitor (projector in my case) holds information >> that must be decoded, and, at a fixed distance, while maintaining >> a high degree of concentration, it makes your eyes not blink - >> which makes for *dry* eyes. The black background really, really >> helps. > > It only works if you're sitting in a darkly-lit room, using dark desktop > theme, and don't routinely switch to e.g. web browser, wherein most of > the websites are dark-on-light. > > Otherwise, the switching between levels of contrast will put even more > strain on the eyes. I'm sure you'll notice that when you get a few more > years sitting before a computer under your belt. I'm 26, and I've > started paying attention to this 2-3 years ago. I'm 67 and I say nope. -- Dan Espen