Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk>]

At 00:15 16/05/2002 -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:

>I don't know Windows.  If you can run emacs from the RUN button, try
>running it with --no-init as a run flag; this loads Emacs alone
>without loading any of the library files.  Emacs itself is mostly just
>an engine, and your distro may have added all sorts of unnecessary
>things to the config script (.emacs in unix, don't know what it's
>called in windows).  If it loads fast with --no-init (assuming this
>flag works in windows) then you need to learn how to trim down your
>config file.

Ah. Never thought of that. I've always had 'enough' ram.
On win2K, it looks for an env variable HOME and looks
for .emacs file in that location, else looks in
wherever you installed it.


I really struggled until I found the O'reilly emacs book.
I still use it regularly! Only this week I started editing files
which had come from cvs and found emacs knew the rev number!
It still amazes me.

Regards DaveP,
with a 'usable' .emacs file which I'd send privately, but not to the list,
since I know Norm uses it too :-)

Regards DaveP