;;; early-init.el -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- ;; Emacs 27.1 introduced early-init.el, which is run before init.el, before ;; package and UI initialization happens, and before site files are loaded. ;; A big contributor to startup times is garbage collection. We up the gc ;; threshold to temporarily prevent it from running, then reset it later by ;; enabling `gcmh-mode'. Not resetting it will cause stuttering/freezes. (setq gc-cons-threshold most-positive-fixnum) ;; Prevent unwanted runtime compilation for gccemacs (native-comp) users; ;; packages are compiled ahead-of-time when they are installed and site files ;; are compiled when gccemacs is installed. (setq native-comp-deferred-compilation nil) ;; In Emacs 27+, package initialization occurs before `user-init-file' is ;; loaded, but after `early-init-file'. Doom handles package initialization, so ;; we must prevent Emacs from doing it early! (setq package-enable-at-startup nil) ;; In noninteractive sessions, prioritize non-byte-compiled source files to ;; prevent the use of stale byte-code. Otherwise, it saves us a little IO time ;; to skip the mtime checks on every *.elc file. (setq load-prefer-newer noninteractive) (unless (or (daemonp) noninteractive init-file-debug) (let ((old-file-name-handler-alist file-name-handler-alist)) ;; `file-name-handler-alist' is consulted on each `require', `load' and ;; various path/io functions. You get a minor speed up by unsetting this. ;; Some warning, however: this could cause problems on builds of Emacs where ;; its site lisp files aren't byte-compiled and we're forced to load the ;; *.el.gz files (e.g. on Alpine). (setq-default file-name-handler-alist nil) ;; ...but restore `file-name-handler-alist' later, because it is needed for ;; handling encrypted or compressed files, among other things. (defun doom-reset-file-handler-alist-h () (setq file-name-handler-alist ;; Merge instead of overwrite because there may have bene changes to ;; `file-name-handler-alist' since startup we want to preserve. (delete-dups (append file-name-handler-alist old-file-name-handler-alist)))) (add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook #'doom-reset-file-handler-alist-h 101)) ;; Premature redisplays can substantially affect startup times and produce ;; ugly flashes of unstyled Emacs. (setq-default inhibit-redisplay t inhibit-message t) (add-hook 'window-setup-hook (lambda () (setq-default inhibit-redisplay nil inhibit-message nil) (redisplay))) ;; Site files tend to use `load-file', which emits "Loading X..." messages in ;; the echo area, which in turn triggers a redisplay. Redisplays can have a ;; substantial effect on startup times and in this case happens so early that ;; Emacs may flash white while starting up. (define-advice load-file (:override (file) silence) (load file nil 'nomessage)) ;; Undo our `load-file' advice above, to limit the scope of any edge cases it ;; may introduce down the road. (define-advice startup--load-user-init-file (:before (&rest _) init-doom) (advice-remove #'load-file #'load-file@silence))) ;; ;;; Bootstrap ;; Contrary to what many Emacs users have in their configs, you don't need ;; more than this to make UTF-8 the default coding system: (set-language-environment "UTF-8") ;; set-language-enviornment sets default-input-method, which is unwanted (setq default-input-method nil) ;; Ensure Doom is running out of this file's directory (setq user-emacs-directory (file-name-directory load-file-name)) ;; Load the heart of Doom Emacs (load (concat user-emacs-directory "core/core") nil 'nomessage)