A very, very newbie question :)

[David Bolen]

ge at nowhere.none (Grant Edwards) writes:

> I used emacs for years without doing any elisp.  I did
> cut/paste a few things from examples into my .emacsrc (or
> whatever it was called).  After I got tired of waiting for
> emacs to start up, I switched to Jed (good emacs emulation,
> decent Python mode, about 1/1000 the size of emacs).

Well, see, there's your mistake - you exited your Emacs.  You never
really need to do that :-)

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