I completely understand the problem of slow a slow emacs startup - that's actually why i started using use-package. So behind the scenes, use-package creates all these autoloads to speed up startup.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Mosè Giordano <m...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hi Caleb, > > 2016-07-27 17:51 GMT+02:00 Caleb Rottman <crott...@sci.utah.edu>: > > Here are my two cents as a somewhat average emacs user (then I'll butt > out > > and let you all decide what you want to do). > > > > I have around 30 packages that I install through ELPA. Since this is > pretty > > unwieldy, I have these all configured using the "use-package" macro, > which > > will automatically download missing packages and `require' them as > > necessary. This makes installations on new machines really simple. > > > > However, since AUCTeX doesn't have any (require 'auctex) line, > use-package > > will fail and AUCTeX won't install. That means that out of the 30 > packages I > > have, I am required to install AUCTeX manually. Now that I know that > AUCTeX > > will work when you just install it, it is indeed not too hard to get > AUCTeX > > working. However, my main hangup in this whole issue is that I expected > > AUCTeX to work like all the other packages I use. > > > > So it's not that AUCTeX is hard to install per se, it's just that it's > > different than all the other 30 packages that I use. This, in my > experience, > > has always made AUCTeX confusing to me in the past. > > Thanks for sharing your experience. I understand your position, but the > "problem" with the use of `require' is that loading in this way many > packages > sensibly slows down startup of Emacs. Ok, one should never close at all > Emacs, > but sometimes happens :-) > > Instead, a smarter approach to load packages is to call them when they're > needed, for this purpose one can use `autoload' combined with > `eval-after-load` > (or the recent `with-eval-after-load'). I don't have use-package, I wrote > my > init file by myself, and I have few packages that are actually `require'd, > the > others are autloaded. I find this way very effective, because not of all > packages I set up in my init file are actually used in all Emacs sessions > I fire > up. Maybe use-package allows you to do something similar for other > packages. > > Bye, > Mosè >
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