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diff --git a/source/blog/2014-12-14-speeding-up-emacs-with-emacsclient.md b/source/blog/2014-12-14-speeding-up-emacs-with-emacsclient.md index c5eafb27..4698fb68 100644 --- a/source/blog/2014-12-14-speeding-up-emacs-with-emacsclient.md +++ b/source/blog/2014-12-14-speeding-up-emacs-with-emacsclient.md @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ title: "Speeding up Emacs with emacsclient" date: 2014-12-14T10:06:02-0800 date_display: December 14, 2014 ---- +... + Emacs is notorious for its loading time. For me, this is especially annoying when I'm editing LaTeX files — AUCTeX takes about five seconds to load, and once I exit Emacs (especially after a quick edit), all that work is wasted, and next time I want to do some quick editing with that same LaTeX file — sorry, another five seconds. This problem can be solved by "using that same Emacs", i.e., running Emacs in server mode, then connecting to the server via `emacsclient`. Below is my script, which I call `emc`, to make `emacsclient` more user-friendly. `emc` opens a file (given as `$1`) on the server, launching one on its way if none is detected. Note that I used `-cqta=` for `emacsclient`. The `-c` option is `--create-frame`, i.e., create a new frame (in the current tty, for instance) instead of using the existing frame (in another tty, for instance); this allows for multiple frames accross different ttys. The `-q` option is for `--quiet`, suppressing messages like "Waiting for Emacs..." The `-t` option is for `--tty`, or equivalently, the familiar `-nw` option of `emacs`. The `-a=` options is `--alternate-editor=`; according to the manpage, `-a, --alternate-editor=EDITOR` has the following effect: |