;;; early-init.el -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- ;;; Commentary: ;; ;; 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. This ;; is the best time to make all our changes (though any UI work will have to be ;; deferred). ;; ;; This file is the entry point into Doom Emacs for your standard, interactive ;; Emacs session, and houses our most pressing and hackiest startup ;; optimizations. That said, only the "bootstrap" section at the bottom is ;; required for Doom to function. ;; ;;; Code: ;; 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) ;; 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 ;; 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) ;; We hijack Emacs' initfile resolver to inject our own entry point. Why do ;; this? Because: ;; ;; - It spares Emacs the effort of looking for/loading useless initfiles, like ;; ~/.emacs and ~/_emacs. And skips ~/.emacs.d/init.el, which won't exist if ;; you're using Doom (fyi: doom hackers or chemacs users could then use ;; $EMACSDIR as their $DOOMDIR, if they wanted). ;; - Later, 'doom sync' will dynamically generate its bootstrap file, which is ;; important for Doom's soon-to-be profile system (which can replace Chemacs). ;; Until then, we'll use core/core-start.el. ;; - A "fallback" initfile can be trivially specified, in case the bootstrapper ;; is missing (if the user hasn't run 'doom sync' or is a first-timer). This ;; is an opportunity to display a "safe mode" environment that's less ;; intimidating and more helpful than the broken state errors would've left ;; Emacs in, otherwise. ;; - A generated config allows for a file IO optimized startup. (define-advice startup--load-user-init-file (:filter-args (args) init-doom) "Initialize Doom Emacs in an interactive session." (list (lambda () (expand-file-name "core-start" doom-core-dir)) nil ; TODO Replace with safe mode initfile (caddr args))) ;;; early-init.el ends here