Re:Advanced techniques for reducing Emacs startup time
by ParetoOptimal on Monday May 16, 2022 @02:14PM
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> ;; * emacs stopped automatically recompiling .emacs wtf
Change to follow XDG specification and ~/.config/emacs having precedence?
Re:Advanced techniques for reducing Emacs startup time
by dilap on Monday May 16, 2022 @05:26PM
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Not sure what that means, but I appreciate the response!
It's been a while since I wrote that note to myself, but I somehow had .emacs setup so it'd get recompiled automatically to byte code on changes (which helps startup speed), and somehow whatever I setup at some point stopped working. (Which resulted in my .emacs changes being silently ignored, as stale .elc was used -- that was confusing to figure out!)
For now I just gave up and stopped using the byte-compiled version, sometimes life is too short, even for an emacs user!
(Though in general anyone who chooses to use emacs must not think life is TOO short...)
Here's my list of problems to solve on a rainy day†:
Probably the biggest source of issues is two different modes not playing well with each other, which is understandable, but also something it feels like a less freeform approach to an editor might reasonably be able to do a better job of avoiding.† To be fair, not all bugs -- some are just configuration issues I haven't figured out yet.