Optimize Emacs startup and UI settings

Streamlined startup by optimizing garbage collection, UI elements, and performance settings. Moved redundant configurations from init.el to early-init.el for better startup efficiency. Made adjustments to init-ui.el for better tool-bar handling post-init.
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Jeremy Dormitzer 2024-08-12 16:31:11 -04:00
parent f32fbd670b
commit 6b4430b854
3 changed files with 225 additions and 19 deletions

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;; -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- ;; -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
;; Don't show ugly graphical UI elements ;; For some reason, the tool-bar-mode disabling in early-init.el was leaving the frame title too tall, so
(when (window-system) ;; toggle it on and off
(tool-bar-mode -1) (add-hook 'after-init-hook
(scroll-bar-mode -1) (lambda ()
(tooltip-mode -1)) (tool-bar-mode)
(tool-bar-mode -1)))
(when (fboundp 'mac-auto-operator-composition-mode) (when (fboundp 'mac-auto-operator-composition-mode)
(setq mac-auto-operator-composition-characters (setq mac-auto-operator-composition-characters

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;; -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- ;; -*- no-byte-compile: t; lexical-binding: t; -*-
;; Borrowed from https://github.com/jamescherti/minimal-emacs.d/blob/main/early-init.el
;;; Variables
(defvar minimal-emacs-debug nil
"Non-nil to enable debug.")
(defvar minimal-emacs-gc-cons-threshold (* 16 1024 1024)
"The value of `gc-cons-threshold' after Emacs startup.")
(defvar minimal-emacs-frame-title-format "%b Emacs"
"Template for displaying the title bar of visible and iconified frame.")
;;; Misc
(set-language-environment "UTF-8")
;; Set-language-environment sets default-input-method, which is unwanted.
(setq default-input-method nil)
;;; Garbage collection
;; Garbage collection significantly affects startup times. This setting delays
;; garbage collection during startup but will be reset later.
(setq gc-cons-threshold most-positive-fixnum)
(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook
(lambda ()
(setq gc-cons-threshold minimal-emacs-gc-cons-threshold)))
;;; Performance
;; Prefer loading newer compiled files
(setq load-prefer-newer t) (setq load-prefer-newer t)
;; Some startup time optimizations stolen from Doom emacs ;; Increase how much is read from processes in a single chunk (default is 4kb).
(setq gc-cons-threshold most-positive-fixnum ; 2^61 bytes (setq read-process-output-max (* 256 1024)) ; 256kb
gc-cons-percentage 0.6)
;; Reduce rendering/line scan work by not rendering cursors or regions in
;; non-focused windows.
(setq-default cursor-in-non-selected-windows nil)
(setq highlight-nonselected-windows nil)
;; Disable warnings from the legacy advice API. They aren't useful.
(setq ad-redefinition-action 'accept)
;; Ignore warnings about "existing variables being aliased".
(setq warning-suppress-types '((defvaralias) (lexical-binding)))
;; Don't ping things that look like domain names.
(setq ffap-machine-p-known 'reject)
;; By default, Emacs "updates" its ui more often than it needs to
(setq idle-update-delay 1.0)
;; Font compacting can be very resource-intensive, especially when rendering
;; icon fonts on Windows. This will increase memory usage.
(setq inhibit-compacting-font-caches t)
(unless (daemonp)
(let ((old-value (default-toplevel-value 'file-name-handler-alist)))
(set-default-toplevel-value
'file-name-handler-alist
;; Determine the state of bundled libraries using calc-loaddefs.el.
;; If compressed, retain the gzip handler in `file-name-handler-alist`.
;; If compiled or neither, omit the gzip handler during startup for
;; improved startup and package load time.
(if (eval-when-compile
(locate-file-internal "calc-loaddefs.el" load-path))
nil
(list (rassq 'jka-compr-handler old-value))))
;; Ensure the new value persists through any current let-binding.
(set-default-toplevel-value 'file-name-handler-alist
file-name-handler-alist)
;; Remember the old value to reset it as needed.
(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook
(lambda ()
(set-default-toplevel-value
'file-name-handler-alist
;; Merge instead of overwrite to preserve any changes made
;; since startup.
(delete-dups (append file-name-handler-alist old-value))))
101))
(unless noninteractive
(progn
;; Disable mode-line-format during init
(defun minimal-emacs--reset-inhibited-vars-h ()
(setq-default inhibit-redisplay nil
;; Inhibiting `message' only prevents redraws and
inhibit-message nil)
(redraw-frame))
(setq-default mode-line-format nil)
(defun minimal-emacs--startup-load-user-init-file (fn &rest args)
"Around advice for startup--load-user-init-file to reset mode-line-format."
(let (init)
(unwind-protect
(progn
(apply fn args) ; Start up as normal
(setq init t))
(unless init
;; If we don't undo inhibit-{message, redisplay} and there's an
;; error, we'll see nothing but a blank Emacs frame.
(minimal-emacs--reset-inhibited-vars-h))
(unless (default-toplevel-value 'mode-line-format)
(setq-default mode-line-format
minimal-emacs--default-mode-line-format)))))
(advice-add 'startup--load-user-init-file :around
#'minimal-emacs--startup-load-user-init-file))
;; Without this, Emacs will try to resize itself to a specific column size
(setq frame-inhibit-implied-resize t)
;; A second, case-insensitive pass over `auto-mode-alist' is time wasted.
;; No second pass of case-insensitive search over auto-mode-alist.
(setq auto-mode-case-fold nil)
;; Reduce *Message* noise at startup. An empty scratch buffer (or the
;; dashboard) is more than enough, and faster to display.
(setq inhibit-startup-screen t
inhibit-startup-echo-area-message user-login-name)
(setq initial-buffer-choice nil
inhibit-startup-buffer-menu t
inhibit-x-resources t)
;; Disable bidirectional text scanning for a modest performance boost.
(setq-default bidi-display-reordering 'left-to-right
bidi-paragraph-direction 'left-to-right)
;; Give up some bidirectional functionality for slightly faster re-display.
(setq bidi-inhibit-bpa t)
;; Remove "For information about GNU Emacs..." message at startup
(advice-add #'display-startup-echo-area-message :override #'ignore)
;; Suppress the vanilla startup screen completely. We've disabled it with
;; `inhibit-startup-screen', but it would still initialize anyway.
(advice-add #'display-startup-screen :override #'ignore)
;; Shave seconds off startup time by starting the scratch buffer in
;; `fundamental-mode'
(setq initial-major-mode 'fundamental-mode
initial-scratch-message nil)))
;;; Native compilation and Byte compilation
(if (and (featurep 'native-compile)
(fboundp 'native-comp-available-p)
(native-comp-available-p))
;; Activate `native-compile'
(setq native-comp-deferred-compilation t
package-native-compile t)
;; Deactivate the `native-compile' feature if it is not available
(setq features (delq 'native-compile features)))
;; Suppress compiler warnings and don't inundate users with their popups.
(setq native-comp-async-report-warnings-errors
(or minimal-emacs-debug 'silent))
(setq native-comp-warning-on-missing-source minimal-emacs-debug)
(setq debug-on-error minimal-emacs-debug
jka-compr-verbose minimal-emacs-debug)
(setq byte-compile-warnings minimal-emacs-debug)
(setq byte-compile-verbose minimal-emacs-debug)
;;; Disable unneeded UI elements
;; Disable startup screens and messages
(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
;; I intentionally avoid calling `menu-bar-mode', `tool-bar-mode', and
;; `scroll-bar-mode' because manipulating frame parameters can trigger or queue
;; a superfluous and potentially expensive frame redraw at startup, depending
;; on the window system. The variables must also be set to `nil' so users don't
;; have to call the functions twice to re-enable them.
(push '(menu-bar-lines . 0) default-frame-alist)
(push '(tool-bar-lines . 0) default-frame-alist)
(push '(vertical-scroll-bars) default-frame-alist)
(push '(horizontal-scroll-bars) default-frame-alist)
(setq tool-bar-mode nil
scroll-bar-mode nil)
(when (bound-and-true-p tooltip-mode)
(tooltip-mode -1))
;; Disable GUIs because theyr are inconsistent across systems, desktop
;; environments, and themes, and they don't match the look of Emacs.
(setq use-file-dialog nil)
(setq use-dialog-box nil)
(unless (memq window-system '(mac ns))
;; (menu-bar-mode -1)
(setq menu-bar-mode nil))
(when (fboundp 'horizontal-scroll-bar-mode)
(horizontal-scroll-bar-mode -1))
;; Allow for shorter responses: "y" for yes and "n" for no.
(if (boundp 'use-short-answers)
(setq use-short-answers t)
(advice-add #'yes-or-no-p :override #'y-or-n-p))
(defalias #'view-hello-file #'ignore) ; Never show the hello file
;;; package.el
;; Since Emacs 27, package initialization occurs before `user-init-file' is
;; loaded, but after `early-init-file'.
(setq package-enable-at-startup t)
(setq package-quickstart nil)
(setq frame-title-format minimal-emacs-frame-title-format
icon-title-format minimal-emacs-frame-title-format)
(provide 'early-init)
;;; early-init.el ends here

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;; -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- ;; -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
;; Some startup time optimizations stolen from Doom emacs
(defvar file-name-handler-alist-backup file-name-handler-alist)
(setq file-name-handler-alist nil)
(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook
(lambda ()
(setq gc-cons-threshold 16777216 ; 16mb
gc-cons-percentage 0.1
file-name-handler-alist file-name-handler-alist-backup)))
;; Start the server after init ;; Start the server after init
(autoload 'server-running-p "server") (autoload 'server-running-p "server")
(defun server-start-if-not-running () (defun server-start-if-not-running ()
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(exec-path-from-shell-check-startup-files nil) (exec-path-from-shell-check-startup-files nil)
(exec-path-from-shell-arguments '("-l"))) (exec-path-from-shell-arguments '("-l")))
;; Don't use this file as the custom-file ;; Don't use this file as the custom-file
(setq custom-file (expand-file-name "custom.el" user-emacs-directory)) (setq custom-file (expand-file-name "custom.el" user-emacs-directory))