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  1. <!DOCTYPE html><head><meta charset="utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" /><meta name="keywords" content="GNU, Emacs, Libre Software, Hurd, Guile, Guix" /><meta name="description" content="GNUcode.me is a website focusing on libre software projects, especially the GNU project." /><link type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="GNUcode.me -- Feed" href="/feed.xml" /><a rel="me" href="https://fosstodon.org/@thegnuguy"></a><link type="text/css" href="css/footer.min.css" rel="stylesheet"></link><link type="text/css" href="css/header.min.css" rel="stylesheet"></link><link type="text/css" href="css/main.min.css" rel="stylesheet"></link><title>Emacs Init File Errors — GNUcode.me</title></head><body><header><nav><ul><li><a href="index.html">GNUcode.me</a></li><li><a href="services.html">Services</a></li><li><a href="about.html">About</a></li><li><a href="business-ideas.html">Business-ideas</a></li></ul></nav></header><h1>Emacs Init File Errors</h1><main><section class="basic-section-padding"><article><h3>by Joshua Branson — May 13, 2018</h3><div><p>This morning, I was rummaging through my emacs init files, and I was noticing
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  2. that as emacs started up, it seemed to be opening a lot of files.</p><blockquote><p>&quot;Hmmm, am I using desktop-save-mode?&quot;  I wondered.</p></blockquote><p>Desktop-save-mode is an emacs mode that saves your emacs session.  It remembers,
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  3. which files you had opened, point's location in the files, etc.   When you open
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  4. emacs again, emacs opens just the way you had it the last time. It can be kind
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  5. of nice, but it can also make emacs slow to start.</p><p>So I was noticing that when I started emacs, it was taking opening a ton of
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  6. files, and wasting a lot of time doing so.  So I looked through my init file and
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  7. found that I was NOT using desktop-save-mode.  So something else was causing
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  8. this.</p><p>I had to find the error the hard way: I commented more than half of my init
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  9. file. Then I shut down emacs.  Restarted.  Then I un-commented out one line. 
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  10. Shut off emacs restarted. Repeat.  I finally found the culprit:
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  11. <code>(add-hook 'after-init-hook 'org-agenda-list)</code></p><p>Basically after my Emacs load, org-mode is opening lots of files to build the
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  12. agenda.  It had to open 15 files!  And I only needed two of those files to build
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  13. the agenda!  So I removed several files from the org-agenda-files variable and
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  14. that solved the problem.  Onto the next issue with my emacs config files!</p></div></article></section></main><footer><p>© 2020 Joshua Branson.  The text on this site is free culture under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International license.</p><p>This website is build with Haunt, a static site generator written in Guile Scheme.  Source code is <a href="https://notabug.org/jbranso/gnucode.me">available.</a></p><p>The color theme of this website is based off of the famous <a href="#3f3f3f" target="_blank">zenburn</a> theme.</p></footer></body>
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