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: Speeding up Emacs load time Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:08:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r4ezdiiy.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87r4ez92ry.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87txjv7gen.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <83r4ez2pra.fsf@gnu.org> 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: ger.gmane.org 1374358221 20311 80.91.229.3 (20 Jul 2013 22:10:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:10:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 21 00:10:22 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 1V0fM4-0001FB-3t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:10:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46927 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0fM3-00006X-M1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47175) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0fLs-0008Vk-6u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:10:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0fLq-0003RI-Gx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41557) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0fLq-0003QB-BE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V0fLn-00019c-Ag for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net ([75.17.109.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from kgoldman by 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:10:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: <83r4ez2pra.fsf@gnu.org> 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:92280 Archived-At: On 7/15/2013 10:38 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> But come to think of it, even moving between Linux distros - not >> with Emacs, but in general - can be a pain. So why is it >> surprising that it takes an effort to move from Debian to Windows? > > It is not surprising. The issue here is different: you said Emacs > wasn't working the same on Windows as on Unix, and that's simply not > true. For me, one of the many selling points for emacs is that it DOES work the same everywhere. I flip between Unix'es and Windows many times a day.