How do I clean up an old crufty .emacs file?

[Steve Grout]

How can I clean up an old crufty .emacs file?
I have been using emacs since about 1983 and probably have a lot of
stuff for things that gets loaded into emacs when its built.
Can you give me any suggestions how I can go through my .emacs
file and weed out what is no longer necessary?  I know I'll
need to start emacs with --no-init-file ~/.emacs etc.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Regards,

--Steve Grout

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