[gentoo-user] Re: [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'

Håkon Alstadheim <hakon@×××××××××××××××.no> writes:

> I have this same problem on some machines. Notably the ones where I've
> put the most cruft in .emacs. I suspect that there is some bug that
> stops garbage-collection from happening during startup so emacs runs
> out of memory. Somehow having a tty attached works around that. A way
> to test is to launch emacs in the background from a terminal (with &
> at the end). If emacs hangs, I do "fg" in the shell  and hit enter a
> couple of times and emacs will (sometimes) continue its initialization
> process.

Here emacs starts immediately with emacs &

>
> A better work-around than firing off emacs in the foreground is to
> make more of your .emacs do AUTOLOAD rather than REQUIRE or LOAD.

There must be more to it since mine doesn't hang at all started
outside of Konq.

> Better yet is to have emacs-server or gnuserv running, and putting
> emacsclient/gnuclient in the browser "editor"-config.

This may be the best... I see that as one of the options in the
Konqueror dialog.  But I've never really messed around with
gnuclient.  Well rather, once years ago I tried it and never really
found it very usefull, or had trouble keeping it running smoothly
maybe.  I don't recall anymore.... just recall an urge not to mess
with it...

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