From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Colin S. Miller" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to show which files loaded on startup? Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:59:02 +0100 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <486d1365$0$90263$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: <54841668-654a-409f-a80e-93dec9af8e97@z32g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215110460 32545 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2008 18:41:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:41:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 03 20:41:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KETkD-0003ou-Dy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:41:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34686 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KETjM-0001nX-Dq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.net.uni-c.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.14eol (X11/20080509) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <54841668-654a-409f-a80e-93dec9af8e97@z32g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.56.112.98 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=JK63IXGHK>BMG4[9BMmA=KYSB=nbEKnkKBeW^X3\7QfCG1[Bg<0aH5@\VT\m5_SIbFU_42Df:PaKHTcL2h5ahoTOkF_>m>CYcVOi0ioh=OFG\IMjOBn]C[I6KaBPdSh0TI0D Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159876 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55227 Archived-At: ranchlan wrote: > I am having problems with emacs taking a very long time to start (for > environment info see end of post). When I start it in a terminal > windows (nox) I get the "F1 *scratch*" screen right away but it takes > me about 70 seconds before the screen allows me to enter anything. > > However, when I start emacs with the "-q" option it starts instantly > (under one second). So, it appears that the slowness is due to > some .el or .elc file that emacs is loading when it starts. > > I looked around and removed all the the files I thought might be > causing the problem but to no avail. So, what I would like to see is > exactly _which_ files emacs is loading when it starts. > > How can I generate such a list? > > Environment information: > Debian Etch, GNU Emacs 21.4.1 C-h v features RET will give a list of the features loaded. This is a .el or .elc, if it called 'provide. M-: (feature-file 'foo) RET will tell you which file provided feature "foo" It will be in one of the directories listed in C-h v load-path RET but I can't find an easy way to determine which one it is. HTH, Colin S. Miller -- Replace the obvious in my email address with the first three letters of the hostname to reply.