Re: [Bug 272443] [NEW] Please have emacs-nox alternative

2008-09-21 Thread Romain Francoise
The -nox variant exists to avoid having to install tons of unwanted dependencies on servers and other minimal environments, not because it starts up faster. If you really want Emacs to start up fast, just run a server in the background and create a new tty frame with emacsclient -t, it's instantan

[Bug 272443] [NEW] Please have emacs-nox alternative

2008-09-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: emacs-snapshot It's good that one can install a non-X version of Emacs, as it starts up faster than the gtk version. Hence, it would be good to be able to always start "emacs-nox" regardless of which version one has installed. Could an emacs-nox alternati