A very, very newbie question :)

[Jonadab the Unsightly One]

scarblac-spamtrap at pino.selwerd.nl (Remco Gerlich) wrote:

> But Jed is so much smaller and faster :)

If you want small and fast, nothing beats UED.  
It used to load up from a 360K floppy on my old 
ITT XTRA (8088, 4.77 Mhz) with no visible delay.

These days I don't worry about it.  Windoze takes
so many decades to start up (okay, it's about
a minute and a half, but it seems like forever)
that any application I start up afterward pales
in comparison.  And really, I only need to close
Emacs to reboot, unless I'm making changes to
my .emacs, and even then I can often just do an
eval-region (or perhaps eval-defun if I have
altered defvars and want them to take effect), 
unless it's a major sweeping change.  It doesn't 
make sense to close Emacs if you aren't also 
shutting down the OS.  Close Emacs?  How would 
you do anything, then?  


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[Mutters something incoherent about rewriting
 gcc in elisp so that it compiles to bytecode 
 and then porting Perl and Python to Emacs...]

[Wakes up.]  What?  Oh, sorry, I was dreaming.

- jonadab