help-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Speeding up Emacs load time


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Speeding up Emacs load time
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:57:33 +0300

> From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:07:18 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > We must have very different thresholds of pain.
> 
> You have no idea what you're talking about.
> 
> Take a look at this dump:
> 
> http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/gnus/dumps/write_article.png

Mine looks very similar.  And your point is?..

> Do you know why it looks like that, and not like some stinking,
> bloodsucking Windows MS Access with a white background, a blinking
> cursor, a minimal font, constant popups, and lack of shortcuts and
> cursor movement functionality that will have you reach for the
> mouse, type, type again, type ten, twenty times as much as I've
> been able to minimize it to, through years of customization,
> setting up zsh and Emacs shorthands in absurdum never to have to
> strike a single key that is not necessary?
> 
> I suspect you probably don't get any of this, because if you did,
> you would never say what you said with zero information about the
> other person, accept that you disagreed over some silly issue.

I can agree that it was silly to say that installing Emacs on Windows,
which boils down to unzipping a single zip file, is painful.

If you meant to say anything else, I'm sorry, but I didn't get it.



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]