3 ms·

Also make sure all your plugins are byte-compiled, this can shorten loading time significantly. Not a problem for elpa/package.el plugins, but I have quite a fe

Also make sure all your plugins are byte-compiled, this can shorten loading time significantly. Not a problem for elpa/package.el plugins, but I have quite a few plugins managed manually (I'm still not using el-get, shame on me) and the way I byte compile them all at once is to place a cursor on a directory with them in dired and issuing: C-0 M-x byte-recompile-directory The C-0 prefix arg causes it to recompile everything without asking for confirmation for every file.

aaronem 13y ago
You could automate this with a function hung off the after-load-functions hook. Here's something off the top of my head: (defun foo-compile-if-newer (path) "A function suitable for hanging off `after-load-functions', which will byte-compile an Emacs Lisp source file for which there is no pre-existing compiled file, or there is a compiled file older than the source." (and (save-match-data (not (null (string-match "el$" path)))) (let ((elc-path (byte-compile-dest-file path))) (if (or (not (file-exists-p elc-path)) (time-less-p (nth 5 (file-attributes elc-path)) (nth 5 (file-attributes path)))) (progn (message "Auto-%scompiling %s..." (if (file-exists-p elc-path) "re" "") path) (byte-compile-file path)))))) (add-hook 'after-load-functions 'foo-compile-if-newer) Adding an exclusion list, if you feel the need for one, is left as an exercise for the reader.