From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: temacs Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:57:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87bokbb4zw.fsf@gnu.org> <83086e1d-d66a-4e0c-95a7-92d10a6de7e7@f8g2000pbf.googlegroups.com> <87r4t3krun.fsf@friendface.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <811ul1ds60.fsf_-_@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340827096 14219 80.91.229.3 (27 Jun 2012 19:58:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:58:16 +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 Jun 27 21:58:16 2012 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 1SjyNS-0006AQ-Ni for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:58:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50828 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SjyNS-0004iT-PC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:58:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36438) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SjyNO-0004iD-4T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:58:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SjyNM-0007xp-Cg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:58:09 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56396) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SjyNM-0007xC-5X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:58:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SjyNJ-0005vc-Bk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:58:05 +0200 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:58:05 +0200 Original-Received: from kgoldman by yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:58:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:85531 Archived-At: On 6/27/2012 12:24 PM, Alp Aker wrote: >>> For git commits, rebases etc I use jemacs as EDITOR. Can I use temacs >>> for such simple editing jobs? > > If the concern is with startup time, then a cleaner solution is just > not to create a new emacs instance every time, and instead keep a > single emacs process running that you connect to every time git needs > to invoke an editor. In other words, start emacs just once, as a > daemon (or put an existing emacs process into server mode), and have > git invoke the editor as "emacsclient" rather than "emacs". See the > info node "(emacs) Emacs Server" for an overview of the various ways > one can use such a set up. > Absolutely! I start emacs perhaps twice a year. Why would I care how log it takes to start up?