OOps: The problem was that emacs was doing a reverse dns lookup or something.
The clue was "10 seconds". As soon as I put the hostname and ip in /etc/hosts emacs went back to immediate. I have never been able to configure a local caching dns server on debian with bind. I dont know how, despite all the reading I have done. So I just fix /etc/hosts which is of course the dumb way. On the other hand on my main machine, I do have a 5 second startup delay of emacs while it does all sorts of things that I know nothing about: such things as ede-speedbar semantic-idle flash by in the minibuffer. What in the world is that? How to dispense with it? Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
