Håkon Alstadheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have this same problem on some machines. Notably the ones where I've > put the most cruft in .emacs. I suspect that there is some bug that > stops garbage-collection from happening during startup so emacs runs > out of memory. Somehow having a tty attached works around that. A way > to test is to launch emacs in the background from a terminal (with & > at the end). If emacs hangs, I do "fg" in the shell and hit enter a > couple of times and emacs will (sometimes) continue its initialization > process.
Here emacs starts immediately with emacs & > > A better work-around than firing off emacs in the foreground is to > make more of your .emacs do AUTOLOAD rather than REQUIRE or LOAD. There must be more to it since mine doesn't hang at all started outside of Konq. > Better yet is to have emacs-server or gnuserv running, and putting > emacsclient/gnuclient in the browser "editor"-config. This may be the best... I see that as one of the options in the Konqueror dialog. But I've never really messed around with gnuclient. Well rather, once years ago I tried it and never really found it very usefull, or had trouble keeping it running smoothly maybe. I don't recall anymore.... just recall an urge not to mess with it... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
