Re: ISO a fast-loading Emacs

[Björn Lindström]

kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid> writes:

> I have an Emacs session running all the time; each of these sessions
> runs for days or weeks on end, so I'm not concerned about the fact
> that Emacs takes a very long time to get started.
>
> But I also would like to have a fast-loading Emacs (or Emacs clone)
> as the value of my EDITOR variable, so that whenever a program
> requires me to edit text I don't have to wait a long time for the
> auxiliary editor to come up.
>
> Any suggestions?

Others have already suggested emacsclient, which in most cases would
be the best solution. On machines with no Emacs, you can often still
use your local Emacs and Tramp.

In the other cases, I like to use nano, with a few options to make it
a bit more like Emacs, something like:

nano -c -k -w