Emacs, very slow startup...

[Kevin O'Gorman]

This sounds like a vim problem I'm having. If you're a vim guy, maybe you
can give a quick
pointer to how to change the vim GUI?

Thanks

++ kevin

On 11/4/05, hometoast <hometoast at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This sounds like a similar problem I had with vim. I was actually running
> vim thru Xwin remotely from my ubuntu box.
> Initially i was running vim with GTK gui; and it moved right along and
> looked great.
> I rebuilt it to include some features but I (inadvertantly) changed the
> gui to MOTIF. When loading with motif it took forever.
>  Double check to see what gui toolkit it is using; maybe you can change it
> to/from GTK, gnome, qt, motif, whatever. I'm a vim guy, but I'm sure someone
> here would know how to change the default gui for [x]emacs.
>  good luck,
>
>  On 11/4/05, Andrea Giuliano <a.giuliano at iccu.sbn.it> wrote:
> >
> > You're right. With the default fonts Emacs starts as usual.
> >
> > Unfortunately, those fonts are ugly. At least they're too big.
> >
> > Many thanks anyway.
> >
> > Fede wrote:
> > > I have the same problems. I don't know why but it is becouse of
> > changing the font.
> > > Try to remove the font entry in your .emacs and test again.
> > >
> > > Fede
> > >
> > > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:27:07 +0200
> > > Andrea Giuliano <a.giuliano at iccu.sbn.it> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>It happens with XML files, but also with some very short and simple
> > >>config files in /etc, and even with my ~/.forward file (a single
> > line).
> > >>
> > >>Christoph Bier wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Andrea Giuliano schrieb am 24.10.2005 10:31:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>Since I upgraded from Hoary to Breezy, I always have to wait several
> > >>>>seconds until Emacs shows the file I want to open. With Hoary, the
> > delay
> > >>>>was rather shorter.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>More precisely, the Emacs window pops up immediately, but just with
> > menu
> > >>>>and scrollbar.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>After about five second, the window is resized (because I chose a
> > font
> > >>>>size different from the default), but it still remains empty (I
> > mean,
> > >>>>completely empty, just a white background, even no cursor).
> > >>>>
> > >>>>After five more seconds, the file is finally showed.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>I can not reproduce this. Which mode is used for this file? Or does
> > >>>it occur with every file and different modi?
> > >>>
> > >>>[...]
> > >>>
> > >>>Regards,
> > >>> Christoph
> > >
>
>
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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