mattfidler
commented
8 years ago Good question.
evil-mode sets up a keymap immediately; it does not look up keybindings based on all the keymaps installed in emacs.
In the first start-up, ergoemacs-mode does the following:
- Runs emacs without any extensions
- Examines all the default keys of emacs
- Saves the keymaps based on the emacs version and platform (some platforms have slightly different keys).
This should only occur once per emacs platform/version run.
The next thing that ergoemacs-mode does is:
- Setup the translation between keyboard layouts that you are using (say Russian and QWERTY)
- Setup the theme to work in the current environment
The last think is trying to lookup keys to ensure maximum compatability. This is done by:
- examining every active keymap,
- translating standard emacs keys to their equivalent in ergoemacs-mode.
This will usually allow the right actions, and maximum compatibility with emacs packages. For example, the save key will behave correctly in org-agenda-mode even though the commands are different. This is because both org-agenda-mode and default emacs define the key Ctrl+X Ctrl+S for the emacs save.
Sometimes, depending on your setup, some of these things are cached, and will take less time on startup. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to cache these so that the keys run almost instantaneously. You can submit a pull request if you have something that works instantly.
If you ever want to check what is slowing ergoemacs-mode, you can always issue the command Alt+a ergoemacs-timing-results to see where ergoemacs-mode is slowing down.
brs-dev
Hi! Why ergoemacs have a load 5 seconds? But if i'm try use evil-mode load instant.