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Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: New start up splash screen annoyance... |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:07:26 -0400 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> On modern computers, Emacs starts up so quickly and uses such an
>> insignificant amount of memory that there is basically much no
>> difference between starting a new Emacs and returning to a
>> pre-existing Emacs session.
>
> There will always be a difference, no matter how fast and memory-rich
> our computers will be, as long as ending a session makes certain
> things go away, like history variables, buffers that don't visit
> files, etc.
Obviously there's a tradeoff. For instance, for my usage patterns,
the advantages you mention are offset by the fact that:
(1) Finding the old Emacs window, selecting it, and opening the file
there interrupts my train of thought. On a cluttered desktop,
this can take about a second or more. (I don't use emacsclient
for various other reasons.)
(2) I sometimes find accumulated Emacs session variables annoying
rather than useful, e.g. a buffer list containing files from two
completely unrelated projects I am concurrently working on.
(3) Since Emacs is single-threaded, checking mail in Emacs
interrupts all other work taking place in that instance of
Emacs, so I must have more than one Emacs open anyway.
(4) My current Emacs session tends to become buggy if I am in the
process of hacking Emacs, and I don't want those bugs to affect
other tasks I do with Emacs.
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, (continued)
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/09/16
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Juri Linkov, 2007/09/19
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/19
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Glenn Morris, 2007/09/19
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Juri Linkov, 2007/09/20
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/20
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Glenn Morris, 2007/09/20
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/21
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs (was: New start up splash screen annoyance...), Davis Herring, 2007/09/12
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/12
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Johannes Weiner, 2007/09/12
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Robert J. Chassell, 2007/09/12
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Richard Stallman, 2007/09/12
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/13
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Sascha Wilde, 2007/09/13
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Sascha Wilde, 2007/09/13
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/13
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Kim F. Storm, 2007/09/13
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., David Kastrup, 2007/09/13
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Richard Stallman, 2007/09/14