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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:56:28 +0100
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Hunter Kelly <retnuh@corona.pixar.com> writes:

> I love XEmacs.  I really do.  But the startup time is really really
> frustrating.  The slowest thing about startup is the 520+ lines of
> stuff dealing with faces/fonts/specifiers in my .xemacs-options file.
[...]

Agreed, totally.  Many people are very enthusiastic about the `Save
Options' capability until they see just how much it slows down XEmacs
startup.  Then they prefer asking me what to put to .emacs exactly to
get the same behaviour.

Point No. 1:

We should make two different entries, `Save Options' and `Save
Fonts'.  This would be quite intuitive, and would provide better
performance.

Point No. 2:

There should be a way to save only the fonts that were actually
changed since XEmacs startup, or at least that were changed by `Edit
Faces'.  While the first is hard to implement, the second shouldn't be
too much of a problem.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly.  
It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with.

