Here is my latest incantation of an emacs config. This time, I am going for a more minimal config, but trying to keep the more full featured config just in case I need it. To do this, I am using some alias in my bashrc

So normal emacs will be in the terminal and will not load packages (although there a few things I put in site-lisp that will get loaded). The pemacs command will load the basic config and then load packages for a more full featured experience, but still in terminal. The gemacs command will launch the same emacs as pemacs but will launch the gui version. These assume EMACS_HOME is set.

alias emacs="${EMACS_HOME}/bin/emacs -nw"
alias pemacs="${EMACS_HOME}/bin/emacs -Q -nw -l ${HOME}/emacs.d/init-elpa.el"
alias gemacs="${EMACS_HOME}/bin/emacs -Q -l ${HOME}/emacs.d/init-elpa.el"

export GIT_EDITOR='${EMACS_HOME}/bin/emacs -Q -nw -l ${HOME}/emacs.d/init-git-editor.el'

Talk about bin directory, which I don't really use anymore

Look at https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ProfileDotEmacs

Downloaded file http://www.randomsample.de/profile-dotemacs.el to ~/.emacs.d/src/profile-dotemacs.el

Edit file and change defvar profile-dotemacs-file from ~/.emacs to ~/.emacs.d/init.el

Then run

emacs -Q -l src/profile-dotemacs.el -f profile-dotemacs

Look for file for overlays of slow expressions

To rebuild all packages, run

M-: (byte-recompile-directory package-user-dir nil 'force)

To recompile

C-u 0 M-x byte-recompile-directory

Then choose ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp