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Are you opening emacs with -nw? That will load it within the terminal, like vim. It loads within a second for me, and I have a sizable .emacs.
by BCM43 15y ago
Are you opening emacs with -nw? That will load it within the terminal, like vim. It loads within a second for me, and I have a sizable .emacs.
- eridius 15y agoMost of the time I'm just running /usr/bin/emacs which is non-GUI by default. A fast boot for me is about a second, a cold boot is a couple seconds. That's acceptable if I'm doing editing that will take a while, but it's interminable when I'm expecting to pop in and out of the editor frequently (e.g. writing very quick git commit messages). Vim's fast boot is near-instantaneous, and the cold boot is less than a second.