Re: [AUCTeX] Long Loading Times

[Tassilo Horn]

jfbu <address@hidden> writes:

> Well, I have a GUI emacs, with AUCTeX 11.8.4 installed (byte-compiled
> too) via the package manager too (ELPA) and if I do
>
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q
>
> and then I do M-x package-initialize
>
> then I can see that some things from tex-site.el are indeed loaded
>
> C-h RET v TeX-
>
>> Describe variable: TeX-
>>
>> Click on a completion to select it.
>> In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.
>>
>> Possible completions are:
>> TeX-auto-global      TeX-data-directory
>> TeX-lisp-directory   TeX-mode-alist
>> TeX-modes
>
> but nothing more !

This is correct.  The initialization made by package-initialize only
sets the load-path and defines some autoloads which trigger the loading
of AUCTeX once you open a TeX file.

Bye,
Tassilo