From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Speeding up Emacs load time Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 21:16:21 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372211034 14247 80.91.229.3 (26 Jun 2013 01:43:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:43:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 26 03:43:55 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Urem2-0002Rm-Gk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 03:43:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Urem1-0002YM-WF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 21:43:54 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b8816fa7300cd668c1c8ea38fc847e8a"; logging-data="2006"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX186+oYQ1UMJ1zkorPhRtnLSVl0zoCBr45w=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hfRaiGZWDWmYux/R4VvmQUjk9KY= sha1:31J+wzAarE4UkrvJL9S0LGMkGCk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199457 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 21:43:41 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91721 Archived-At: Andrew Pennebaker writes: > I love Emacs's customizability! I regularly edit my .emacs file, and the > community has been helpful and encouraging. But I do notice that Emacs can > take several (10) seconds or longer to load. > > For reference, I'm using Emacs 24.1 for Mac OS X, Windows, and Android. I > keep my .emacs synced, shared, and backed up on GitHub. > https://github.com/mcandre/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs > > Could someone help me cut down the load time while maintaining the same > behavior? The "best" solution to the start up time issue is simple. NEVER shut down emacs. There's seldom a good reason to, especially if you are a programmer, do your compile/edit/test cycle completely within emacs. Other than that, emacs can run as a daemon process and you can use emacsclient to connect to it very quickly. -- Dan Espen