Questions tagged [start-up]
About starting and initializing an Emacs session
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What can I do to speed up my start-up?
What are some basic things I could do to reduce the start-up time?
Is there anything in particular I should pay attention to, for that matter?
Note: Startup time can be mitigated by starting Emacs ...
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How does Emacs manage to start instantaneously with many el-files?
As every Emacs'er will know, I'm currently suffering from my extensive dot-Emacs configuration. All my packages are within the containers of use-package, and I bytecompiled all of my .el-files.
Even ...
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require vs. package-initialize?
Ok, this is a noob question but I've digging into this enough that I think it's reasonable to ask :)
My question: In one's .emacs / init.el file, can one use require to load packages that were ...
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Customize startup screen text
I want to add a string to the startup screen. I found this question and customized the fancy-startup-text variable, like this
(add-to-list 'fancy-startup-text '("\nYou are running a customized ...
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How to open multiple files without automatically activating the "Buffer List" split?
Running emacs with multiple files automatically opens the "Buffer List" split-window.
eg:
emacs -Q *.txt
Opens a split window, one which contains a list of buffers.
How can multiple files be ...
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How to replace the default contents of the scratch buffer with the contents of a file (if it exists)?
I would like emacs to check for a ~/emacs.d/scratch.txt and use it's contents instead of the default message when emacs starts.
How can this be done?
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How to auto-toggle NeoTree on startup?
I would like to have NeoTree automatically toggle-open upon Emacs start up. I have tried adding:
(neotree-mode t)
under my:
(require 'neotree)
line in ~/.spacemacs (and yes, I am using Spacemacs ...
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How to make size of Emacs frame persistent?
When I start Emacs (by clicking on a desktop icon), its frame is too big for the screen, so the mode-line/mini-buffer area is not visible.
It's not difficult to resize and reposition the frame, but ...
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How to start Emacs without the cmd.exe window (on MS Windows)?
It says emacs/bin/emacs.exe. If it's not necesarily useful, I'd like to stop it from starting with emacs. The extra window is messing me up a bit.
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replace splash screen with list of recentf
The splash screen is useful in the beginning, but now I want something more useful: I want to have list of recently opened files presented when starting emacs if there is no predefined file to open. ...
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Why does Emacs take longer to start on Windows than on Linux?
Configuration:
One system
OS Windows 10 as dual boot
OS Ubuntu 15.10 as dual boot
Emacs 25.0.1 with GUI
I have one dot-emacs file and everything in my .emacs.d folder (the packages also are located ...
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Removing tool bar oddly slow
(tool-bar-mode 0) takes up 11% of my initialization time (about a third of a second). It's not that big of a deal; it's just strange. I've tried it on multiple computers. I've also tried disabling ...
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Handle stale desktop lock files after emacs/system crash
If Emacs or the system crashes when desktop-save-mode is active, Emacs leaves a stale desktop lock file. The next time the desktop is loaded (from another Emacs process ID), loading is interrupted ...
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"Unable to activate package" when starting Emacs
I get the following message when starting Emacs:
Warning (emacs): Unable to activate package `elpy'.
Required package `highlight-indentation-0.5.0' is unavailable
Warning (emacs): Unable to activate ...
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Is it possible to disable the startup screen only when emacs opens a file?
Whenever I issue $ emacs, I am greeted by the startup screen. I like this.
However, when I issue $ emacs foo.txt, emacs opens foo.txt and the startup screen in a split screen. I do not like this.
Is ...
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Programming of Initial-buffer-choice
I need to make a function that will choose an org mode file if emacs was called with no arguments, and basically go about its way otherwise.
So far I have
(defun personaltodo ()
(if (= 1 (...
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Keep spacemacs from retrieving package archives at startup
I'm trying to figure out a way to speed up my spacemacs start time. The main offender at the moment is the refreshing of package archives at start. I was hoping that setting dotspacemacs-check-for-...
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Portable Emacs: Remapping user-emacs-directory
The Problem
I want to install Emacs on a USB Flash Drive in a portable fashion, that is, Emacs should be able to be run from the UFD, once plugged on a device, without predefined paths to its ...
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Set startup screen to *About GNU Emacs* page
When I start Emacs, it shows me the GNU Emacs buffer. I want to set it to the page one gets with the C-h C-a command with the nice Emacs logo instead. How can I do this.
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How can I override initial-buffer-choice if I specify a filename at command line?
In my .emacs file I have the following line in custom-set-variables:
'(initial-buffer-choice "~/Programming/C++/<some project I'm working on>")
This works great. However, I use emacs to edit ...
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Hide emacs frame until loaded
In my init.el file, I have some code to hide the Emacs toolbar:
;;; Hide the toolbar
(tool-bar-mode -1)
But when I load Emacs, it first enables the toolbar, and then quickly hides it, after it reads ...
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Why doesn't set-background-color work in my init file?
I have an init file for Emacs located at /home/username/.emacs.d/init.el and it has the command (set-background-color "honeydew").
However, when I open Emacs the color has obviously not changed from ...
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How can the start up log of Spacemac be viewed?
When I start Spacemacs there is a message about some faults on my setup which scroll past quickly before I can view them.
Is there some file or some buffer that holds them for review?
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Can I open emacs in nw mode with the scratch buffer?
When starting emacs from the shell command line, if you pass the "dot", it opened emacs with a 'dired' of the current directory.
But can I do this?
emacs '*scratch*'
so emacs opens with the focus ...
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Loading addition org files along with default scratch buffer
I do a lot of my programming in Haskell and Python. I've started maintaining a personal cheat-sheet for each of these languages for common constructs and tasks I often come across.
Hence whenever I ...
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Weird behavior: GUI won't start, but terminal emacs will
As I said in the title, I'm having a problem with starting Emacs, whenever I try to start it with rofi, nothing happens, and when I try and start with terminal (using emacs), it returns "Args out of ...
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Kill initial buffers
I want to kill some buffers created by default, such as the GNU Emacs, but putting:
(kill-buffer "*GNU Emacs*")
On the .emacs doesn't work. I guess this code is called before the initial buffers are ...
