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Re: emacs24 auctex slow start
From: |
Grant Rettke |
Subject: |
Re: emacs24 auctex slow start |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:45:13 -0500 |
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:42 AM, <ivowel@gmail.com> wrote:
> is this how it is supposed to be?
Unknown. If you send me the file I will try opening it and timing it.
> if not, how can I diagnose the problem and improve this?
Start Emacs with nothing loaded except auctex and time it again.
Also try https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/mailing-lists.html
> dear emacs wizards:
>
> My computer is an i7-4770k with gobs of RAM and an SSD.
>
> I am running emacs24 + emacs24-el on ubuntu linux (obtained via apt-get), and
> immediately install auctex and adaptive-wrap through the package manager
> (11.87.7 for auctex); I wish ubuntu would allow non-interactive installation
> by providing a package, but it's ok.
>
> When I open a 120k tex file, it takes about 5 seconds. When I rename the
> .tex file to .txt in order to avoid the auctex (from .emacs), my emacs
> startup is instant. so I know the problem is auctex.
>
> I don't even know how to debug this. I tried starting with --debug-init and
> looking at the *Messages* buffer, but this does not even tell me that auctex
> started up. (it tells me that 50ess.el did. interesting.) I know that
> adaptive-wrap mode is not at fault. removing it makes no difference.
>
> maybe this slow startup is intrinsic. maybe it just takes a long time to
> colorize and process a .tex file in auctex. but 5 seconds is pretty
> substantial on a 120k file on an i7-4.
>