Questions tagged [start-up]
About starting and initializing an Emacs session
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Startup Emacs Daemon With Elfeed (RSS Feed Reader) Buffer
What I would like to accomplish is this:
Allow emacs daemon to start with my start up applications like normal
When I open an emacs frame I would like only the first one to start with my rss news ...
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Emacs Trunk: How to prevent creation of home directories in `load-path`
In the Emacs Trunk build -- i.e., built --with-ns, I have the following entries that get added automatically to my load-path when launching without any user configuration:
"." "./Applications" "./...
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How to diagnose emacs hanging and 100% cpu on startup?
How can I diagnose this issue?
I've tried using strace and I see the following that seems to be stuck in a loop:
recvfrom(5, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., ...
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Extremely slow startup on Windows - How to debug?
I have a serious problem with an extremely slow spacemacs startup (emacs-init-time = ~200s).
(The server works, but this is so slow I cannot debug some other problems that I am trying to fix)
My ...
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How to detect if emacs starts with a file?
I would like to be able to implement the following logic.
(if (developer-opened-file-with-emacs)
(do nothing, get on with working as fast as possible)
(load fancy splash screen that may take ...
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Emacs times out trying to read from /dev/tty on startup?
After several years of being annoyed of Emacs on Ubuntu (not Mac via brew) having a ~2-3 second delay before displaying file contents at startup I finally decided to debug this.
I ran strace -r emacs ...
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Cannot figure out why vc-git.elc is always loaded on startup
This is more a curiosity, than a necessity.
I'm playing around with startup times, and to have something to compare with, I wanted to see how fast emacs could start up pure.
Running emacs -Q, emacs-...
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How can I stop Emacs from grabbing focus at startup?
I typically start GUI Emacs on macOS, https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/overview, installed via Nix package manager, as part of a larger startup script on the terminal (iterm). While Emacs is ...
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Emacs slow when launching GUI
I have a weird problem. When I launch emacs GUI by double clicking the icon, or using open -a emacs in the terminal, or calling the application from alfred/spotlight it takes 4-8 seconds to launch. ...
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starting emacs from the commandline and setting line wrap to 60 - howto?
I'm new with Emacs and come from Joe.
There I started editing mail from the command line by
joe -rmargin 60
because I don't want to generally set the right margin to 60.
I can't find a similar ...
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If I move frame during Emacs startup, it moves back at the end of startup
I have a fairly long startup for Emacs 24.4 on Microsoft Windows 7. I try to move the frame where I want it during startup, but it snaps back after all the startup code is done running. I don't appear ...
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Doom Emacs start-up problems
Running Doom Emacs 2.0.9 on Emacs 27.1.
In my init.el I have org-roam enabled like so:
:lang
(org +roam +journal)
In my config.el I also load org-habits, hide it in initial agenda view and set-up a ...
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How to run a keyboard macro (saved in my init.el) automatically when Emacs starts up?
I have saved a keyboard macro in my init.el file as follows
(fset 'remember-notes-my-macro
(lambda (&optional arg)
"Keyboard macro."
(interactive "p")
(kmacro-...
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Emax64 trying to install already installed pdf-tools on every startup
I am using the emax64 build of Emacs for Windows x86-64 systems.
However, it tries to install pdf-tools on every startup, even though it is already installed. How to turn this off?
-*- mode: ...
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Emacs cannot start from spotlight, “Method 'zsh' is not known”
I just buy a new macbook and I want to move my old working env to it. I used emacs-plus@27.0.91 which was installed by homebrew:
d12frosted/emacs-plus/emacs-plus@27: stable 27.0.91, HEAD
/usr/local/...
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Start Emacs with gdb with a different main source file
I often run Gdb in a dedicated Emacs session. I have code to run gdb when Emacs start and set up Many-Windows mode.
For one particular project, there are many programs, all written in C, that share a ...
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Can't run emacs from terminal.Cannot open load file: No such file or directory
Emacs 26.1
Linux Mint 19
Open terminal, write emacs, but I get error:
Warning: Could not find simple.el or simple.elc.
Cannot open load file: No such file or directory
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Running a single Emacs instance
I'd like to set in my dot-emacs a function to detect if an Emacs instance is already running, possibly exiting Emacs informing user.
To do this I should query the OS for running processes. However
(...
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Error when initializing Emacs
This is what I get when starting Emacs from terminal with emacs --debug-init. I don't know the reason why emacs suddenly started to not working.
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument ...
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What's the value of default-directory during startup?
I'm looking through startup.el, and normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path references the default-directory variable.
What's the value of that variable during startup? I searched for calls to ...
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How can I make the initial frame invisible?
Using the following command line causes Emacs to briefly display the initial frame, then hide it:
emacs -Q --eval "(setq initial-frame-alist '((visibility . nil)))"
This is consistent with the ...
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Troubleshooting a blank window
I've run into a bit of an issue that I'm having trouble resolving. I use quite a few packages, one of which is ESS. The latest update to ESS seems to run into issues when trying to install. All I ...
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Starting Emacs on OSX stuck
When lots of application running, emacs doesn't start. Icon appears on dock but application doesn't show up. If I quit some apps and retry to start emacs, it works flawlessly.
Is the any chance to ...
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Stop Emacs from adding all subdirs to default-directory
I'm having trouble stopping Emacs from loading all packages in my default-directory. When I call c-h v load-packages I get a listing of all subdirectories inside my elpa directory, which I want to ...
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use-package can't load package at startup
When I start Emacs I get the error message
Error (use-package): Cannot load counsel
But when I open init.el in a buffer and run eval-buffer everything works fine. What I'm doing wrong?
My Emacs ...