Re: temacs

[rusi]

On Jun 30, 12:37 am, Ken Goldman <kgold...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 6/28/2012 4:49 AM, Bastien wrote:
>
> > "John Wiegley"<jo...@newartisans.com>  writes:
>
> >> Thus, Emacs is already as simple as you need it to be.  Just don't load
> >> anything in your .emacs.
>
> > Which points at the trap many newbies fall in: adding to many stuff to
> > their .emacs.  Some of them are just experimental, then get forgotten,
> > then you wake up one day wondering why launching Emacs takes too long.
>
> I think you've defined the wrong trap - starting emacs every time you
> want to edit a file and then complaining that launching takes too long.
>
> If anything, perhaps it should be easier to install and use
> client-server emacs.  Windows programs (Firefox, Office, ...) do that by
> default.
>
> I have many years of accumulated code in my .emacs.  I load all kinds of
> packages, some that I rarely use.  It doesn't matter.  I start emacs
> once every few months, so 10 seconds doesn't matter at all.

Parkinson law's says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

     Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Likewise one could say:
    Mess expands so as to fill the diskspace available for it