Doom saves a lot of startup time by avoiding package-initialize, because
it loads every packages' autoloads file, which is expensive.
Unfortunately, these autoloads files are necessary for some plugins with
abnormal file structures (such as ESS). Previously, I was content with
loading them myself, but these occurrences have become more frequent, so
it would be safest if I relied on package-initialize more.
So doom-initialize will now do so. However, it will cache the load-path
(and Info-directory-list, fixing the lost info buffers) on first run.
This makes byte-compiling Doom almost useless, but it makes startup just
as fast as Doom would be if you had.
This needs more testing.
Any module can now use a doom! call to declare a module tree root.
This means that if you have a doom! block in
~/.emacs.d/modules/lang/org/init.el, then you can have submodules in
~/.emacs.d/modules/lang/org/modules/MODULE/SUBMODULE if you wanted to
for some reason.
This is only really truly useful for private modules. A doom! block in
~/.doom.d/init.el will recognize and enable modules in
~/.doom.d/modules/.
~/.doom.d/modules is now a full module tree, like ~/.emacs.d/modules.
Symlinks are no longer involved.
Private modules can now shadow Doom modules. e.g.
~/.doom.d/modules/lang/org will take precendence over
~/.emacs.d/modules/lang/org.
Also, made doom--*-load-path variables public (e.g. doom--site-load-path
=> doom-site-load-path), and rearranged the load-path for a 10-15%
startup boost.
This is a breaking change! Update your :popup settings. Old ones will
throw errors!
Doom's new popup management system casts off its shackles (hur hur) and
replaces them with the monster that is `display-buffer-alist`, and
window parameters.
However, this is highly experimental! Expect edge cases. Particularly
with org-mode and magit (or anything that does its own window
management).
Relevant to #261, #263, #325
Local cache and data files were stored in a parent folder named after
your host, because I'd symlink the same config across computers via
dropbox. This would cause byte-compile issues in packages, so I stopped
doing this.
Now that each computer gets its own clone, host-namespaced local
directories are unnecessary. There's no other benefit to having them.
This refactor is about improving how Emacs deals with errors.
A large net is now cast at startup to catch possible errors, produce
more helpful error messages, and localize the damage. Significantly
reducing the risk of later modules not loading (and leaving you
stranded in a half-broken Emacs session).
The DOOM core files are an exception. If something messes up in there,
it *should* choke.
+ use-package will now report missing packages or slow-loading/broken
def-package! configurations.
+ Persp-mode no longer (inadvertantly) hides buffers that pop up at
startup, like the *Warnings*, *Backtrace* or debugger buffers.
+ `make autoloads` (or doom/reload-autoloads) now produces a slightly
more informative error message if an error occurs while building the
autoloads file.
+ Error handling for package management is *slightly* better now; error
messages now include the type of error; this needs work.
+ Add doom-init-hook and doom-post-init-hook to simplify Emacs init
hooks into less ambiguous ones.
+ Attach former after-init-hook and emacs-startup-hook hooks to new doom
init hooks.
+ Vastly improves daemon and tty support: preventing incorrect colors
from bleeding across face class barriers, and into GUI Emacs and vice
versa, when spawned with emacsclient.
+ Fix persp-mode breaking Emacs daemon, and ensuring that initialization
is done properly in terminal Emacs (and emacsclient frames).
