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Re: Fast emacs?
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Michael Ekstrand |
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Re: Fast emacs? |
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Sun, 17 May 2009 17:12:03 -0500 |
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kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid> writes:
> For ***years*** I've been looking for a solution to this problem,
> and I'm truly amazed that I have yet to find it: how to get a
> fast-starting version of emacs. The problem is that I have a big
> .emacs file and a big Emacs desktop, which means that my Emacs takes
> forever to start. This is fine most of the time, but occasionally
> I want a fast-starting emacs session (e.g. when I run "sudo emacs"
> to edit a superuser-owned config file), and it's infuriating to
> wait for emacs to go through a lengthy and useless song-and-dance...
>
> I just can't believe there is no way around this. (Other than, of
> course, using vi.)
I frequently use Zile in that context. Bare-bones editor with Emacs
keybindings. Great for the odd config file edit from a terminal.
- Michael
--
mouse, n: A device for pointing at the xterm in which you want to type.
Re: Fast emacs?, Jean Magnan de Bornier, 2009/05/20