Quicken User Manual

~ … Look, do you want this message or not?

~ All right, but why do I have to gland quicken?

~ Because it’s a long message, of course … in fact it’s an interactive message; an entire semantic-context signal-set with attached mind-state abstract capable of replying to your questions, and if you listened to the whole thing in real time you’d still be sitting there with a vacant expression on your face by the time your jovial hosts got to the hunt-the-waiter course. And I did say it was urgent.

About

Quicken provides various “hacks” to speed up Emacs initialization.

Quicken does not deal with deferring package loading. See once.el for that.

Warning

~ Excuse me, said the suit. ~ I think Byr Genar-Hofoen may want to think twice before glanding a drug as strong as quicken in the present circumstances. He is my responsibility when he’s out of your immediate locality, after all, Scopell-Afranqui. I mean, be fair. It’s all very well you sitting up there–

~ Keep out of this, you vacuous membrane, the module told the suit.

~ What? How dare you!

When I say “hacks,” this refers to these facts:

• quicken.el - Can temporarily increase gc-cons-threshold and unset file-name-handler-alist during Emacs initialization to speed things up. Generally, you should be very careful messing with these variables. At the time of implementation, Doom clobbers any customization that happens to file-name-handler-alist during initialization. Quicken will instead merge the initial and new values to prevent this issue.
• quicken-tangle.el - Provides an alternate tangling function for literate org configs that does not depend on org. The caveat is that it supports a limited subset of org’s tangling functionality. You can of course tangle before initialization, but quicken provides both: asynchronously tangle when there are changes to your init file or retangle at startup if the org file is newer than the tangled one.