Re: [Nedit-develop] Calling external programs speed
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From: Volker K. <lis...@pa...> - 2004-01-09 05:37:56
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> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 06:02:17 +0100 Do you always work through the night? :)) > About `spawn a command' (ok not a daemon, sorry for my bad memory). Never mind, just couldn't find it. > Because usually csh isn't slow I find the 0.5s irritating. Obviously this is purely dependent on the amount of stuff in ~/.cshrc. The difference between csh and sh is that the latter doesn't read all those files for non-interactive shells. Perhaps people have faster boxes, but I find my P3-450 fine. On a 486 with 32M ram, shell->sort however has always been useless, purely because of the csh startup time. > and because you can't spawn commands > w/o blocking macros As general statement, this then applies to both csh and sh, whereas > - we had some traffic about this from folks > setting the shell to sh and wondering why they can't go on > spawning commands (tkdiff, xdvi, etc.). only makes sense if csh doesn't block but sh does, unless folks start tkdiff and everything else via csh shell aliases. There's something I'm still missing. Have sh folks ever complained that their shell aliases / functions don't work? Because that's the identical situation. > We had so far nobody complaining about slowness. Well, I've put up with it for years :) (only grudgingly so) > but losing features that are important for > many is also a problem. Sure, that's ok if you know there are such people. I always crank up stuff from the tcsh term window... It's still possible to get at the aliases with csh -l -c myalias as command. The whole thing would be most flexible if arguments to the shell started by nedit were possible. That way, bash users can add --login and get their aliases, and csh users can add -f to get some speed. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. |