dotfiles VS homebrew-emacsmacport

I got a lot out of starting off with this fella's minimum.el file: https://github.com/olivertaylor/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/cookbook/minimum.el

Yeah, at first glance you have over 100 require statements in your config (some of those might be behind with-eval-after-load). I would guess that cleaning that up to only the minimum you need would get your startup time WAY down. Mine, for example, is around .75 seconds. I only explicitly require 9 packages, the rest are autoloaded.

It's not necessary for me. The very first line in my init file is:

If I can recommend a starting place, I have a starter init file that I recommend to people getting started. It's what I wish I had when I started.

Into your new init file paste my personal starter config. It doesn't do a lot but it does 4 main things:

You might also be interested in my personal "minimum" configuration. Basically, it's what I wish I had started with.

The relevant part of my config can be found here.

Run emacs -q (no add-ons loaded) and it should be a lot faster than VS Code. Which means that a library you loaded is the culprit. Things like Doom Emacs are notorious for unexpected slowness since they're not very well put together and load questionable libraries.

In the unlikely case where emacs -q is still slow, use Emacs Mac Port (https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport/releases...).

This is at least 2x perceivably faster than VS Code on Mac.

Important note: I learned that apparently not all Emacsen properly support :stipple (despite happily accepting it as a face attribute). Linux/UNIX is safe, emacs-mac supports it on MacOS, but Windows may not at all (untested). Also, terminal emacs does not (to my knowledge) implement :stipple. Let me know how you fare. Update: Pure GTK emacs apparently does display stipples, but incorrectly (as an inverse mask).

I don't use macOS anymore, but the best port I found for speed was https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

There is the code to do just that. Works with emacs-mac and emacs-plus.

There's the "Mac" version, from Mitsuharu Yamamoto or railwaycat. The Mac port works more like Mac than the NextStep port. And it looks like the Mac port does work with C-f4.

Homebrew

You can install emacs-mac by homebrew (see https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport). $ brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport $ brew install emacs-mac This emacs contains mac-win.el. Mac Auto ASCII mode in the mac-win.el automatically selects the most-recently-used ASCII-capable keyboard input source on some occasions: after prefix key (bound in the global keymap) press such as C-x and M-g, and at the start of minibuffer input. This function is very useful. I guess you can read Japanese, please visit Japanese setup page of my website (https://taipapamotohus.com/post/japanese\_setup/).

For what it's worth, the emacs-mac port provides a mac-effective-appearance-change-hook hook to do the same thing as the System appearance change plugin. I use it like this: