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Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:52:48 GMT |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
> Some of us actually have to pay for our electricity. Some of us care
> that leaving a computer running continuously spews carbon dioxide into
> the atmosphere (fuelling global warming) and creates radioactive waste.
> We switch our computers off when not in use. I often boot my computer
> several times a day.
Why not `suspend' it ?
[ Incidentally: does anybody here have experience configuring a Linux
desktop machine to behave "a bit like a laptop" and turn off its drive
when not used, ...
This is not only to save power but to save my ears as well. ]
> But I don't like leaving Emacs running, even when my PC is on. You see,
> jit-lock runs continuously in the background, consuming vast amounts of
> CPU usage, thus contributing even more to global warming, et al.
Not continuously: only until it's all been re-font-lock'd.
And if you don't like it, you can turn off the background jit-locking
by setting jit-lock-stealth-time to nil.
Stefan
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, (continued)
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Joe Corneli, 2003/11/07
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Reiner Steib, 2003/11/07
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Edward Dodge, 2003/11/07
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Stefan Monnier, 2003/11/10
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, kgold, 2003/11/10
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Alan Mackenzie, 2003/11/11
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/11/11
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2003/11/11
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Lars Brinkhoff, 2003/11/12
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- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Colin Marquardt, 2003/11/12
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, David Kastrup, 2003/11/12
- Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Stefan Monnier, 2003/11/12
Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file, Joe Corneli, 2003/11/08