From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giovanni Aliberti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Version 21 too slow remotely Date: 13 Nov 2002 13:23:38 -0500 Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037213294 20958 80.91.224.249 (13 Nov 2002 18:48:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:48:14 +0000 (UTC) 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 18C2Yb-0005Ra-00 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:48:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18C2Mj-00077m-00; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:35:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18C2CF-0004LL-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:25:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18C2CA-0004Jo-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:25:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18C2CA-0004JX-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:24:58 -0500 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18C2C9-0006oT-01 for gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:24:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18C2Av-00045C-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:23:44 -0500 Original-Received: from senator-bedfellow.mit.edu ([18.181.0.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 18C2Au-00044p-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:23:40 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 13462 invoked by uid 32); 13 Nov 2002 18:23:37 -0000 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter) Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: MIRA.MIT.EDU Original-X-Trace: 1037211817 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 3927 18.94.0.129 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:3874 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:3874 eliz@is.elta.co.il (Eli Zaretskii) writes: > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, David E Sigeti wrote: > > > I run Emacs remotely (displaying on my local X server). I have found > > version 21 to be unusably slow. I have not had this problem with version > > 20. > > Thank you for your report. > > Please provide more details: what operations are slow, how much time do > they take in Emacs 21 and how much in Emacs 20. That's because most > people find Emacs 21 not slower than Emacs 20, so this could be something > specific to your system configuration or to your Emacs setup. Yes, emacs 21 'appears' much slower then emacs 20. The reason is that 21 displays too many icons at startup. The solution would be to have it start, (still using X11) but with no icons. Anyone knows how to do that ?? -vanni