Re: optional packages on startup?

[Jambunathan K]

> Hi,
>   In emacs, I have a lot of things that load up (cscopes, cedet,
> ecb).  Since I have to ssh into a proxy, and then into the main
> server, there's a bit of latency for emacs to start up.

Never do a (require 'package) - either for uncompiled or compiled
packages.

Always compile the installed packages - autoloads ensures that the
packages are loaded on demand. 

There lots of other things that you could do but the above two steps
will ensure visible improvements.

> Is there an easy way to say 'emacs simple filename.cpp' and if simple
> is present, it skips over some number of packages?  Doing emacs
> filename.cpp, however, would load all packages.
>
> Thanks!
> Jai
>
>

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