Emacs, very slow startup...

[hometoast]

The only way I know of is to recompile vim with a different toolkit using
compile options: --[enable,disable]-gtk-check --[en,dis]able-motif-check
etc.
Again, this may not be the problem Andrea was having with her emacs; rather
a similar observation when I recompiled vim with motif.

 On 11/6/05, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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