Re: Problem with emacs

2009-04-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm using Emacs on Debian, when I try to edit a file with emacs, it > takes many to open the file. A common problem is that Emacs tries to find the machine's name at startup, and depending on your (mis)configuration, this may require access to the network and may hence fail with a timeout. Try

Re: Problem with emacs

2009-04-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:22:57AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-04-18 09:25 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > You probably need more memory. > > Probably not. > > > EMACS has long been expanded to "Eight Megabytes And Still Swapping" > > back from when eight megabytes of RAM was a gargant

Re: Problem with emacs

2009-04-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-18 09:25 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > You probably need more memory. Probably not. > EMACS has long been expanded to "Eight Megabytes And Still Swapping" > back from when eight megabytes of RAM was a gargantuan amount. The memory footprint of Emacs has not grown so much since these d

Re: Problem with emacs

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Maurice Guerrier wrote: > > I'm using emacs on debian, when I try to ed it a file with emacs, it > takes many to open the file. > > for exemple: emacs /etc/resolv.conf ---> it takes many times before > opening the file. > > What do you think about this problem > > Guerrier MAURICE > Cell.

Re: Problem with emacs

2009-04-17 Thread John Hasler
Maurice Guerrier writes: > I'm using emacs on debian, when I try to edit a file with emacs, it takes > many to open the file. for exemple: emacs /etc/resolv.conf ---> it takes > many times before opening the file. Please show us exactly what you did and exactly what happened. Cut and paste: don'

Re: Problem with emacs

2009-04-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Maurice Guerrier wrote: > I'm using emacs on debian, when I try to edit a file with emacs, it takes > many to open the file. > > for exemple: emacs /etc/resolv.conf ---> it takes many times before opening > the file. > > What do you think about this problem To ch

Re: problem with emacs in testing?

2007-01-16 Thread Tyler
Hi again, I've now uninstalled all emacs components and reinstalled them. I still get a whole list of problems. I did find that the problem loading "50a2ps" was related to the uninstalled package a2ps. Adding that removed that particular error - does this mean the dependency list for emacs21

Re: Problem with 'emacs'

1999-11-21 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Big Gaute wrote: > When I type emacs in the shell, it starts emacs19, rather than emacs20. > If I type emacs20 emacs 20.3 comes up, so I know that it's installed. > > What's wrong? How do I fix it? /usr/bin/emacs is a symlink to /etc/alte