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Startup time can actually be really good if you configure it right. Stock Emacs is about 150ms for me. There is also a portable dumper that will save your Emacs boot Image to memory for faster loading. Also check this out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/f3ed3r/how_is_doom_e...

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Sure, or you could use "emacs -Q," but all of those performance improvements are off by default, and it seems like they always will be. As long as that's true Vim will always be the quicker and easier way to modify a file.

nah, just wait for the next version of systemd, I hear everything will be fixed with systemd-weyland-kitchensink-emacsd

edit: am emacs (and nvi) user. just chiming in on .1ms vs 1ms startup time arguments as a basis for anything important

-Q shouldn’t give you any better startup time than vanilla emacs.

Some distros have significant Emacs start-up configurations, which have an impact on start-up time. Using "-Q" skips this too. It's the case for Debian, so Ubuntu too I guess.

I used to use "jed" as a close to Emacs, light text editor to use for a quick edit from the shell. Nowadays I aliased jed to "emacs -nw -Q" (-nw: text mode, -Q: skip all configs), which subjectively starts instantaneously. And even a bare Emacs skipping the system an my configurations is very powerful. It also supports millions of colors with Konsole, so it's nice when reading code.

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