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From: avolio@DECUAC.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
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Subject: RE: X10 1, GNUmacs 0
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Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 06:51:38 EST
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   Date: Sun, 19 Apr 87 10:21:12 edt
   From: trwrb!wiley!bob@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Bob Amstadt)

   I don't know anything about rn, but unless the geometry is provided to
   GNU emacs, it will need to be placed. I personally prefer to use GNU emacs
   as an environment where I read news, read mail, and edit. My experience
   tells me that GNU emacs is not a good editor for invoking from another
   program to do quick editing. GNU emacs is huge and takes too long
   to load for that purpose. It seems to me that it would be better to
   start in emacs and deal with news and mail from within emacs.

Since this is not a list about GNU Emacs, let me be short:  GNU Emacs
supports the idea of an Emacs server.  IF you have one up already, it
doesn't have to start another.  The delay problem goes away.

I use GNU and X togeter all the time and have never seen the problems
mentioned (having to supply the geometry is not an X problem... have
your default editor set up to be "myemacs" where is exec's gnu emacs
with geometry info).
 a f1Q