FC2 Emacs very slow to load

Clint Harshaw clint at penguinsolutions.org
Sat May 22 14:49:33 UTC 2004


Clint Harshaw wrote:
> This is a fresh install of FC2. There is a file that seems to be slowing 
> down emacs when it is opened. When I type emacs foo at the prompt, the 
> following file seems to bring emacs to a crawl:
> 
> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-list/site-start.d/iiimecf-init.el
> 
> This delay is around 5 seconds before the buffer is displayed in emacs. 
> I have tried putting my old .emacs file in my /home/username directory, 
> but that has no effect, because this file seems to be loading before my 
> .emacs file is loaded.
> 
> I have tried inserting the line below, and that doesn't change things:
> (setq inhibit-default-init t)
> 
> Does anyone else have these symptoms with emacs in FC2? This wasn't 
> happening in FC1, and a Google search for the above file wasn't helpful, 
> except to see that it is part of fedora.
> 
> Thanks,
> Clint

I renamed the iiimecf-init.el file to iimecf-init.el.old and now emacs 
seems to open files much more quickly (like it used to do).

Anybody have any ideas about what that file is supposed to be doing?

-- 
Clint Harshaw  <clint at penguinsolutions.org>





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