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Hm, the author really does mean 'standing alone'. I'd always assumed that when someone does this, they'd make emacs perform the usual init duties, and that the

Hm, the author really does mean 'standing alone'. I'd always assumed that when someone does this, they'd make emacs perform the usual init duties, and that the rest of the system would be available. And you want the rest of the system to be available, to use emacs properly... hobbes@metalbaby:~$ find /usr/share/emacs -type f -name \*.el -exec grep '/bin/' {} +|wc -l 62 hobbes@metalbaby:~$ find /usr/share/emacs -type f -name \*.el -exec grep call-process {} +|wc -l 44 ...For some reason I thought those numbers would be much larger. I'm probably searching for the wrong strings.

LukeShu 12y ago
Most of the .el files are compressed as .el.gz files; also /sbin/. $ find /usr/share/emacs/24.3/ \ > -name '*.el' -exec grep -E '/s?bin/' {} + -o \ > -name '*.el.gz' -exec zgrep -E '/s?bin/' {} + | wc -l 212 $ find /usr/share/emacs/24.3/ \ > -name '*.el' -exec grep call-process {} + -o \ > -name '*.el.gz' -exec zgrep call-process {} + | wc -l 400
mercurial 12y ago
emacs-systemd, coming soon to your system.
- daveloyall 12y ago
  Yes! But, we're 0.2 seconds away from the old emacs threading conversation here... :)