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I see no mention of the emacs daemon [1] which I've found very useful in resource constrained environments (ie. tiny VMs or underpowered chromebooks). That's es
by mxvzr 10y ago
I see no mention of the emacs daemon [1] which I've found very useful in resource constrained environments (ie. tiny VMs or underpowered chromebooks). That's especially true if you bring out the big guns like Spacemacs.
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Emacs#As_a_daemon https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Emacs#As_a_daemon
- pawadu 10y agoIs emacs really that resource hungry? I started using emacs for writing C code on a machine with 1MB of memory. I feel that these complaints come mostly from people that have installed a ridiculous number of very inefficient plugins to make emacs look like something else. Spaceemacs in particular is big & slow (and IMO ugly on most devices).
- mxvzr 10y agoNo you're right it's not resource hungry: if you have an empty (or sane) ~/.emacs and ~/.emacs.d then it is completly fine. However if you have the habit of opening a new instance from the command line for a given file rather that go back to your already openned emacs instance, like I do, it will add up rather quickly (and the buffers won't be shared accross these multiple instances). With spacemacs it becomes particularly problematic (especially in regards to start up times), and I think that's where the emacs daemon truly shines. (edit: also no complaints here; I just feel this daemon is great and wanted to share the sentiment; it also felt relevant as AFAIK vim has no such feature)