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I'm referring more to startup time than I am responsiveness. Emacs has only ever been "sluggish" when I've used it on a system with little memory.
by apgwoz 18y ago
I'm referring more to startup time than I am responsiveness. Emacs has only ever been "sluggish" when I've used it on a system with little memory.
- rbanffy 18y agoIt's sluggish on Cygwin. I guess, though, it's not Emacs' fault.
- aoeu 18y agoI gave up with the Cygwin version and switched to the native port (http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/ http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/). Some Cygwin integration is supported by adding to .emacs: (require 'cygwin-mount) (setq cygwin-mount-cygwin-bin-directory "C:/cygwin/bin") (cygwin-mount-activate) And I use the following alias to open files directly from bash: alias emacs='D:/tools/emacs-22.3/bin/emacsclient.exe --no-wait --alternate-editor=D:/tools/emacs-22.3/bin/runemacs.exe'
- windsurfer 18y agoMan, if my D: drive had emacs installed on it, it would be a :D drive.
- biotech 18y agoI have the same problem. Startup time is over a second on some modern systems. There is some good advice on how to avoid this on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/778716/how-can-i-make-emacs-start-up-faster http://stackoverflow.com/questions/778716/how-can-i-make-ema...
- ellyagg 18y agoHaha. You must be missing a ton of cool extensions. My startup time is like 10 seconds. I could certainly work hard to bring it down, but who cares? I never turn off emacs or my computer.
- pohl 18y agoI used to live in emacs, so the startup time was a one-time penalty in the morning. All subsequent interactions were opening new buffers from within that one instance. (This was the X11 version of the interface, not the one that runs inside an xterm.) I loved it. Eventually I weened myself off of emacs because I felt that I needed to become intimate with one of the fancier IDEs, a move that I do not regret.
- windsurfer 18y agoWhat IDE did you switch to? Eclipse?
- pohl 18y agoNetBeans, using the GWT4NB plugin for a GWT-based project. It's funny you should ask, as I've started looking, longingly, over at the better GWT support in the Eclipse world. (Google writes the plugin for Eclipse, so it's a well-worn path...GWT4NB is a small, volunteer effort with no official support from anywhere.)
- scorpion032 18y agoWith the kind of sluggishness we are adopted to these days with firefox and network responses; I think Emacs is definitely is not sluggish.