Re: How to show which files loaded on startup?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

ranchlan <ahl456@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

When you pass -q, emacs skips loading your dot file: ~/.emacs

Edit it with C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET



> 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?

(mapcar 'first load-history)


> Environment information:
> Debian Etch, GNU Emacs 21.4.1

But really why do you start emacs?

I mean, more than once everytime you boot your computer, that is,
given a Debian system, once every 18 months?  Don't you use emacsclient?

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