[Gllug] [O/T] Grr... new keyboard

Harry Rickards hrickards at l33tmyst.com
Mon Mar 16 16:38:45 UTC 2009



Quoting Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk>:

> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:13:54AM +0000, Nix wrote:
> [...]
>> It *can* be, but it's less elegant (generally you need an emacs running
>> somewhere else that is talked to with emacsclient/gnuclient, because it
>> takes way too lomg to start a new one to edit one file).
>
> Emacs takes about a half-second or so to start up on my box. Perhaps you
> need to upgrade to a machine made in the last ten years?
>
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I don't want to turn this into a flame war, but if it takes too long  
to start up emacs, maybe you could use a quicker, smaller editor such  
as vi or vim?

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