Re: Unicode characters for transcribing to pdf

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>
>>> I installed it using package.el. Then for some reason I had
>>> problems configuring keybindings in LaTeX-mode-map: somehow
>>> the variable seemed to not be defined. I manually searched
>>> for it in the package (M-x grep-find iirc), then required
>>> the relevant files.
>>
>> `LaTeX-mode-map`, like most package variables, is only
>> defined once its package is actually loaded, which is done
>> lazily in response to the use of the package (e.g.
>> opening a LaTeX file).
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_loading
>
>> So it's normal that `LaTeX-mode-map` is not defined when
>> your init file is loaded. This is on purpose to try and
>> speed up Emacs's startup.
>
> Does it really make it that slow? Must be something from
> Emacs' past, maybe ...
>
> And besides you shouldn't restart Emacs all the time either?
>
> With this
>
>   (require 'tex-mode)
>   (define-key latex-mode-map "\C-c\C-c" #'compile)
>
> starting Emacs is almost instant.

But it always adds a little to your init time.  When you configure too
many packages like this, these will cause the startup to take a long
time.  I recommend:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(with-eval-after-load 'tex-mode
  (define-key latex-mode-map "\C-c\C-c" #'compile))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This will bind the key as soon as tex-mode is loaded.

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