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I hope this doesn't come along as aggressive but: Do you really have a "different use case", or are you just averse to the idea of running it in the background

I hope this doesn't come along as aggressive but: Do you really have a "different use case", or are you just averse to the idea of running it in the background as a daemon? Do you really need to save the 70 MB (without addons) to 200 MB (with addons) that it takes sitting there? Unlike bloated Electron apps, Emacs doesn't actually use CPU while you're not using it - it just sits there, takes up a little memory (and even on my old 4 GB RAM ThinkPad it's not enough to actually inconvenience me), and awaits you opening a new frame with emacsclient.

giraffe_lady 4y ago
I don't know I'm not an "emacs guy" really, I didn't know about this feature. It will probably work for me and I'll consider setting it up the next time I twiddle with my emacs config, something I do for an hour or two about once a year. But whether or not it solves my problem yes I think the use case is different? The person I responded to uses it so consistently they leave it running at all times. I can go days or weeks between single uses, depending on the projects I'm working on. That's a very different use to me.
- throw10920 4y ago
  Ah, well, if you're going days/weeks between using it, then I understand why it wouldn't be useful for you to figure out how to configurate it more, and why leaving it running in the background would be mostly a waste. That makes sense. Although, now, I'm sure that many of us are curious - why would you only use Emacs this infrequently, but bother to use it at all?
  - giraffe_lady 4y ago
    I used to use it a lot and do prefer it in the abstract. Just, my daily work has shifted to where I spend a lot more time exploring unfamiliar codebases, making small changes and refactors, and pairing in them. I work in a lot of different languages. Maintaining an emacs config that is truly very good at everything started to feel like a part time job on its own. Plus I work remote and for better or worse vs code has become conventional for remote pairing. So I have a minimal emacs config for when I don't need any particular language integration, and the rest of the time vs code is good enough for the daily work I actually do, which is rarely writing out features from scratch anymore.

giraffe_lady 4y ago

I don't know I'm not an "emacs guy" really, I didn't know about this feature. It will probably work for me and I'll consider setting it up the next time I twiddle with my emacs config, something I do for an hour or two about once a year. But whether or not it solves my problem yes I think the use case is different? The person I responded to uses it so consistently they leave it running at all times. I can go days or weeks between single uses, depending on the projects I'm working on. That's a very different use to me.

throw10920 4y ago
Ah, well, if you're going days/weeks between using it, then I understand why it wouldn't be useful for you to figure out how to configurate it more, and why leaving it running in the background would be mostly a waste. That makes sense. Although, now, I'm sure that many of us are curious - why would you only use Emacs this infrequently, but bother to use it at all?
- giraffe_lady 4y ago
  I used to use it a lot and do prefer it in the abstract. Just, my daily work has shifted to where I spend a lot more time exploring unfamiliar codebases, making small changes and refactors, and pairing in them. I work in a lot of different languages. Maintaining an emacs config that is truly very good at everything started to feel like a part time job on its own. Plus I work remote and for better or worse vs code has become conventional for remote pairing. So I have a minimal emacs config for when I don't need any particular language integration, and the rest of the time vs code is good enough for the daily work I actually do, which is rarely writing out features from scratch anymore.