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: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:36:55 -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 1374064824 30124 80.91.229.3 (17 Jul 2013 12:40:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:40:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 17 14:40:26 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 1UzR1r-0000Y2-HN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:40:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57655 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzR1r-00071h-5g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:40:23 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 49 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2b4d99857b7659717d3b28a24c766d4c"; logging-data="16465"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/5kp64hQW7wIfHXyPvlaD+bJcTW5p3q3Y=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:riHeP//Gjoiuu9ORQsaEXNy4mpI= sha1:OlrBU9i3/86GBbWR5aWgTXgQ71M= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199941 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:92207 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov writes: > Dan Espen writes: > >>> I take it you've been using dark terminals, themes, etc, while switching >>> to applications with different levels of contrast and back, for quite a >>> few years now. Right? >> >> Yep, long, long time. >> >>> How are your eyes these days? No glasses? >> >> You're kidding right? Everyone needs glasses at my age. >> I wear 1.25/1.25 for reading and looking at the screen only, >> otherwise my vision is perfect. > > I know I'm being unreasonable, but if you didn't need glasses, it > would've been a strong argument against. As it is, though, I can't make > a good guess whether you vision is worse or better than if you made an > effort to keep levels of contrast constant. > > The fact that you didn't notice your eyes being tired doesn't mean they > weren't. Maybe it was accompanied by a headache, and the latter was more > pronounced. Or maybe you kept a healthy lifestyle, took necessary pauses > every X minutes and limited work with computers to 6-8 hours a day. > > Most days, I'm behind monitor 12+ hours, and so I've found I have to pay > attention to posture, wrist placement, neck and the eyes. And exercise, > of course. Keep trying. I don't get headaches, ever. I use the computer for work (programmer), and recreation. Ever think that looking at bright things and dark things might be pupil exercise? Of course I prefer light on dark, that's why I have Emacs that way. Firefox, I can't do much about, but the white background doesn't bother me much. By the way, I pound on the keyboard. No problem there either. What's the phrase, if it doesn't kill you, it will make you stronger. -- Dan Espen