> Let me get this straight. You plan to code for hours, and your biggest concern at this point in time is your editor takes 1 - 2 seconds more to start? NO. M

> Let me get this straight. You plan to code for hours, and your biggest concern at this point in time is your editor takes 1 - 2 seconds more to start? NO. Mine isn't. I happily used emacs when it took a solid half a minute to fully load. Hell, I once was stuck on an AIX machine that needed lots of maintenance and figured it would "save time in the long run" if I built emacs from source so I could debug things there instead of copying files back and forth. Eight megs and constantly swapping and I feel fine. :) I was just pointing out the startup time as an easy way to pop the nonsensical argument that on today's hardware emacs is anything but lightning fast. > On the other hand emacs is notorious for making users spend days to get a decent working set up. Days? Powerful tools can take years to master! The best are those which let you be productive immediately, while providing a natural and built-in path for you to grow as you need to. Make easy things easy, hard things possible, &c.