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About starting and initializing an Emacs session

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Why does Emacs take longer to start on Windows than on Linux?

Configuration: One system OS Windows 10 as dual boot OS Ubuntu 15.10 as dual boot Emacs 25.0.1 with GUI I have one dot-emacs file and everything in my .emacs.d folder (the packages also are located in .emacs.d). All of these files are located in…
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How does Emacs manage to start instantaneously with many el-files?

As every Emacs'er will know, I'm currently suffering from my extensive dot-Emacs configuration. All my packages are within the containers of use-package, and I bytecompiled all of my .el-files. Even with that, Emacs starts in 6.4 seconds, and then…
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How to prevent Emacs from creating two windows on startup Windows 10?

When I start Emacs not from the command line on Windows 10 it creates two windows, not one. Is there any way to make the blue window go away? I usually need 4-5 instances of Emacs running so it clutters up my set up. And No, I, unfortunately, cannot…
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How to load all .el files at start-up

Usually there are many .el files in the folders with the name lisp in the installation directory of Emacs. At start-up, Emacs doesn't load all these files, in consequence a command like M-x calendar-print-day-of-year in only accessible after…
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Is it possible to disable the startup screen only when emacs opens a file?

Whenever I issue $ emacs, I am greeted by the startup screen. I like this. However, when I issue $ emacs foo.txt, emacs opens foo.txt and the startup screen in a split screen. I do not like this. Is it possible to disable the startup screen only…
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How to detect if emacs starts with a file?

I would like to be able to implement the following logic. (if (developer-opened-file-with-emacs) (do nothing, get on with working as fast as possible) (load fancy splash screen that may take a while)) What would be a good way to detect this…
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Is `loadup.el` hard-coded, such that `-nl` (aka --no-loadup) is futile?

I would like to create my own startup.el, and it seems that loadup.el is what causes startup to do its thing -- i.e., (load "startup"). I see that an option for starting Emacs is -nl or --no-loadup; however, neither of those have any affect on OSX.…
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emacs -nw -q takes long time

emacs -nw -q or emacs -nw -Q takes more than 10 seconds to start in terminal, but the result of M-x emacs-init-time is 0.0 seconds, and the emacs takes shorter time (still more than 5s) than emacs -nw -q or emacs -nw -Q and the result M-x…
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Customize startup screen text

I want to add a string to the startup screen. I found this question and customized the fancy-startup-text variable, like this (add-to-list 'fancy-startup-text '("\nYou are running a customized Emacs configuration. See " :link ("here" …
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Set startup screen to *About GNU Emacs* page

When I start Emacs, it shows me the GNU Emacs buffer. I want to set it to the page one gets with the C-h C-a command with the nice Emacs logo instead. How can I do this.
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How to auto-toggle NeoTree on startup?

I would like to have NeoTree automatically toggle-open upon Emacs start up. I have tried adding: (neotree-mode t) under my: (require 'neotree) line in ~/.spacemacs (and yes, I am using Spacemacs too, if that is somehow relevant) in order to get…
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Turning off loading messages in Emacs minibuffer/GUI at startup

I would like to prevent Emacs from reporting on everyting that is being loaded at startup in the minibuffer. This is because it seems to pause when telling me which files are being loaded that I have specified myself in my init file. I have…
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Emacs from an alias/function

uname -a Linux antixbox 4.9.235-antix.1-amd64-smp #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Sep 14 19:26:52 EEST 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux emacs --version GNU Emacs 27.1 echo $SHELL /usr/bin/zsh I'm trying to get the following to work: em() { emacs $1 -geometry "56x23"…
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Emacs startup and the elisp environment

Can anyone tell me what is going on when Emacs starts up? As I understand, Emacs has a "base," a "foundation" of code written in C, but then supposedly a great Lisp "program" takes flight. And from then on you are interacting with one big live Lisp…
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Why do symbols become suddenly defined right after startup?

Below is an example of the situation described in the question's title, using the variable prolog-mode-version as test case. If my Emacs init file consists of just the code shown below: (defun show-pmv (hook-name) (let ((pmv (if (boundp…
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