FC2 Emacs very slow to load

[Jens Petersen]

>>>>> "CH" == Clint Harshaw <clint at penguinsolutions.org> writes:

    CH> This is a fresh install of FC2. There is a file that
    CH> seems to be slowing down emacs when it is
    CH> opened. When I type emacs foo at the prompt, the
    CH> following file seems to bring emacs to a crawl:

    CH> Loading
    CH> /usr/share/emacs/site-list/site-start.d/iiimecf-init.el

    CH> This delay is around 5 seconds before the buffer is
    CH> displayed in emacs. I have tried putting my old
    CH> .emacs file in my /home/username directory, but that
    CH> has no effect, because this file seems to be loading
    CH> before my .emacs file is loaded.

    CH> I have tried inserting the line below, and that
    CH> doesn't change things: (setq inhibit-default-init t)

    CH> Does anyone else have these symptoms with emacs in
    CH> FC2? This wasn't happening in FC1, and a Google
    CH> search for the above file wasn't helpful, except to
    CH> see that it is part of fedora.

What is the spec of your machine btw?  I have a fast machine
here where emacs takes less than 2s to start up with iiimecf.

If you don't need IIIMF support in Emacs you can just remove
the "iiimf-emacs" package which includes the above init
file, then the slow startup (due to loading the "un-define"
from mule-ucs I think) will go away.

Sometimes it doesn't pay to install everything. :)

Hth, Jens