GNU bug report logs - #1578
23.0.60; [EmacsCarbon] emacsclient -c make emacs very slow (under Mac OSX)

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Message #22 received at 1578 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: poppyer <poppyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 1578 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacsclient -c make emacs very slow (under Mac OSX)
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 12:37:19 +0200

On Feb 6, 2009, at 8:26 PM, poppyer wrote:

> I notice that if I start with "emacs -nw", there is no NSApp (no  
> icon in
> the osx dock). When I use "emacsclient -c" to open a NS frame, the  
> icon
> shows up. My idea here is, if I close every NS frame, can we  
> destroy the
> NSApp and make it nil again (say by testing the frame count) ? If this
> is possible, it at least make emacsclient more usable; and I don't  
> need
> to restart Emacs.

This a good idea and would probably meet better with user  
expectations when the only frame is closed (get rid of the icon in  
the dock), also applicable when started with --daemon.

I don't have time to work on it right now, so if someone else wants  
to take a crack.. it shouldn't be that hard (though there could be  
unexpected gotchas I guess)...

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