Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs

["Dave Brooks, BCS Systems" <dave@bcs.co.nz>]

At 10:41 18/05/2002 +1200, Dave Brooks, BCS Systems wrote:
>Thanks for the various suggestions and hints. The delays are somewhere in 
>the (load-library "tei-emacs-init") that is invoked from site-start.el.
>
>Now to copy it's contents into .emacs, start with --no-init and execute it 
>line by line (with C-x C-e).

The culprit (in tei-emacs-init.el) is:

(if (> emacs-major-version 20)
(progn
;; the unicode files are in /elisp/ucs
(add-to-list 'load-path (concat unicodelispdir "/Mule-UCS-0.84/lisp"))
(require 'un-define)
))


Now commented out, as I don't use/need unicode.


Again, thanks for the help.

Dave


>At 21:54 17/05/2002 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote:
>
>>>  I don't
>>>know of a real function-trace to follow the init stuff. At least some info
>>>is put into the minibuffer (under the status line) while starting up and
>>>loading different elisp packages. If you can read fast enough...
>>>
>>>As a last resort you might want to inspect your .emacs (or possibly _emacs
>>>with NTEmacs) and "simulate" what will be going on when executing the
>>>contents in an elisp interpreter.
>>
>>Dave, if you put the cursor at the end of each line of the .emacs file,
>>hit C-x C-e, it will execute that statement, which is sort of slow-mo
>>debug?
>