esup VS helix

Probably the best way to figure out what's going on at startup time is ESUP (Emacs Start Up Profiler): https://github.com/jschaf/esup You could run it on the old config and the new. Although I suppose the processes may be different enough that there's nothing meaningful to compare.

I agree with you. For startup profiling, use-package-report and https://github.com/jschaf/esup can help too.

A very useful tool for achieving faster startup is esup (https://github.com/jschaf/esup) which times each code block that runs in the emacs startup.

Have you tried running M-x esup with https://github.com/jschaf/esup to see what is taking up the start-up time?

Are you on Emacs 28? Native-comp is enabled by default and it's Just Worked™ for me. Or are you on at least Emacs 27? Emacs 27 added native JSON parsing; stuff like lsp-mode works a lot better now.

(Personally running Emacs 29 built from source on an M1 Pro; everything is instant! Even on my old dumpy i5 machine, everything except startup was pretty snappy, with the exception of startup which took ~4 seconds.)

If it's startup you're concerned about, try the esup[1] package to figure out what's taking so long.

[1]: https://github.com/jschaf/esup

If you're really interested what happens on startup, you can play around with the startup profiler( https://github.com/jschaf/esup ) or similar packages that time the execution of your .emacs.

I used the Emacs Startup Profiler (ESUP) https://github.com/jschaf/esup which identified several culprits in my init files. Removing or deferring the loading of those packages took my startup time from ~15 seconds to about 2.5 seconds. (Still room for improvement!)

GitHub - jschaf/esup: ESUP - Emacs Start Up Profiler

Try out esup

Nice post. Obligatory Helix plug: For anyone interested in taking this further, there are whole editors designed around multi-cursor editing.

https://helix-editor.com/

I could never turn it off completely but I do sometimes use the Acme theme during the day (it's too bright in the evening), which highlights just comments, strings, and errors.

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Themes#acme

You can use a snippet LSP to work around Helix not having a built-in LSP manager. They're listed in https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/395

I'm probably not the average python programmer.

But I normally just create two terminals (I have a tiling window manager) and in one I open a python file under /tmp/ write my code and execute it in the other terminal.

I would probably use a REPL if it was integrated in my favorite editor ( https://helix-editor.com ).

Wow, that's been there a while: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/35c974c9c49f912...

Wonder how I missed that. I'm getting a re-education in helix today -- thank you! I'll go through `hx --tutor` again before I insert any more feet in my mouth.

Interesting to see how they are gonna approach integrating plugins/extensions system, because this is likely gonna be one of the major factors affecting adoption and ecosystem growth.

Helix devs, for instance, lean towards a Scheme-like implementation. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...