Re: Speed up Emacs startup

[Lennart Borgman]

Sébastien Vauban wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just a quick question which does not seem so obvious to be
> answered: is there an easy way to speed up Emacs launch without
> sacrificing the readability and shortness of the .emacs file?
>
> I mean: I don't like the autoload statements where you need tens
> of lines instead of one require function call. Is it possible to
> write a modified "require" that would provide the same kind of
> effect (ie, load files only when they are truly needed OR when
> the system is idle)?
>  
Are you running Emacs as an "edit server"? If you use gnuserv/gnuclient 
you only have to start Emacs once (but maybe that is not your problem).