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How can I improve startup time despite many packages?

TL;DR I have such a huge amount of packages that it's hurting my startup time. If you don't believe that could be the case, read on. My Emacs startup time is quite small. I don't use use-package, I just set tons of hooks and autoloads so that…
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Require a file in the current directory without setting load-path

I have test code that wants to require some utility code in the same directory. I would prefer to not update the load-path, as most of the time, I do not want me or any other user who has checked out this code to be looking in this directory. It…
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Flycheck could not find file under load-path

I have some elips *.el file in my ~/.emacs.d/gman/ folder, e.g. smart-inputp-methods.el. This folder is added to my load path at the beginning of .emacs file: (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/gman") Leter I importing it: (require…
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Warning message about load-path.

When I start up emacs, I see Warning (initialization): Your `load-path' seems to contain your `.emacs.d' directory: ~/.emacs.d/ This is likely to cause problems... Consider using a subdirectory instead, e.g.: /home/faheem/.emacs.d/lisp I think I…
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Elisp files in load-path are not loaded on emacs start

What failed for me? (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/others") what worked for me? (mapc 'load (file-expand-wildcards "~/.emacs.d/others/*.el")) Functions defined in elisp files lying @~/.emacs.d/others were not loaded in the first case. So, is…
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how do i install "solarized-theme"?

first i do this in a terminal: $ git clone git://github.com/altercation/solarized.git, that creates a directory in my home called "solarized", after that i add this 2 lines to my init.el (add-to-list 'load-path…
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Obviate the need to specify every folder for a manual setup

I run all my Emacs packages manually without any package manager. My setup is a simple init.el file with this kind of direction: (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/packages/ace-window") (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/packages/dired+") …
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How to list a newly formed emacs minor-mode?

With some help from the blog post found here, I have managed to write a small code for a test package (a minor mode) named niranjan. It is as follows. (define-minor-mode niranjan-mode "Hello world" :lighter " niranjan" :keymap (let ((map…
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Help me install the development version of org-mode from Github repo

I want to install org-mode from Github repository and override that from ELPA. My emacs configuration runs from an org-file, these are the lines relevant to package management and org-mode load path: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (require 'package) …
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Spacemacs - move org-mode customization to separate file

I have several hundred lines of customization code for org-mode in a private layer. In Spacemacs, customization code typically goes in a function called $LAYER/init-$PACKAGE or in my case, joe/post-init-org. However, this adds three layers of…
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Emacs Trunk: How to prevent creation of home directories in `load-path`

In the Emacs Trunk build -- i.e., built --with-ns, I have the following entries that get added automatically to my load-path when launching without any user configuration: "." "./Applications" "./Applications (Parallels)" "./Desktop"…
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No such file or directory: dash

Since few days I am getting this error but I don't remember changing anything in my configuration. I have dash installed on my system. I was thinking then it needs dash Emacs package, but after installing it nothing has changed. When I do evaluate…
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package-install doesn't pick up dependencies that are already in site-lisp

I have a bunch of software git-cloned into my site-lisp/ directory. It and all of its sub-directories are in my load-path. The problem I noticed is that package-install sometimes insists on pulling dependencies into elpa/ even when such packages…
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how do I get Flymake to recognize files in my load-path?

when running Flymake against ~/.emacs, I see errors complaining about missing files like "powerline" and "company" - i.e. stuff contained in load-path. How can I configure Flymake's elisp backend to be aware of load-path? Nothing in the Flymake…
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How to debug inability to load library `auto-complete`

I am a new to Emacs , i downloaded auto-complete , moved it to ~/.emacs.d/plugins/ then modified the .emacs file to look like : (add-to-list 'load-path (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name…
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