emacsen (was: Re: [Ffmpeg-devel] SVN dump)

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:15:24PM +0800, Limin Wang wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:12:52PM -0400, Dave Dodge wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:46:39PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > > Weird.. I found XEmacs several times faster but maybe it's because I'm
> > > > using the console (-nw) version and not the GUI..?
> > > 
> > > Probably.  I don't know how XEmacs currently performs, but certainly
> > > 10+ years ago when I first tried it the X11 display was _much_ more
> > > sluggish (and cluttered) than GNU.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately GNU has lately been aping some of the XEmacs clutter,
> > > such as having a toolbar.  The toolbar can be turned off easily
> > > enough, but I find that when you do that at startup it causes the
> > > window to shrink a bit rather than simply replacing the toolbar's
> > > space with text.  Only happens this way at startup, though; like some
> > > sort of race condition.
> > 
> > I have the following in my .Xresources, works around the problem.
> > 
> > Emacs.toolBar:                 off
> > Emacs.menuBar:                 off
> > Emacs.verticalScrollBars:      off
> 
> Put below into your .emacs if you want to disable menu, toolbar, scroll for
> Emacs.
> 
> ;; no menu and toolbar
> (menu-bar-mode nil)
> (tool-bar-mode nil)
> ;; no scroll bar mode
> (scroll-bar-mode nil)

Been there, done that.  Won't work around the problem mentioned above.

Diego