From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Speeding up Emacs load time Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:04:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372266334 6575 80.91.229.3 (26 Jun 2013 17:05:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:05:34 +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 19:05:35 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 1Urt9u-0006HP-5w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:05:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56729 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Urt9t-0003Rf-EN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:05:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42929) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Urt9h-0003RV-7u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:05:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Urt9e-0002Ko-03 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:05:17 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53765) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Urt9d-0002Kb-Ox for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:05:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Urt9U-0005wT-7y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:05:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 169.15.137.27 ([169.15.137.27]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:05:04 +0200 Original-Received: from david by 169.15.137.27 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:05:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.15.137.27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1299999999999999 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:n0PtBvljDp1BB4hpo8q2ucHEn/c= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:91741 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? Wow. My emacs takes almost 2 minutes to load up. But I only start it in the morning, and stop it at night before I go home. Dave