Re: Speed up Emacs startup

[Jason Rumney]

Ismael Valladolid Torres <ismaeval@free.fr> writes:

> Sébastien Vauban wrote:
>
> > I've completely avoided that problem by using a `try-require'
> > function: if the package is not installed, it'll just go on as
> > if nothing happened.
>
> Why not just using locate-library to require the package only if it's
> installed and locatable? There are plenty of sentences like this in my
> .emacs:
>
> (when (locate-library "muttrc")
>   (require 'muttrc))

Why not just use the optional third argument to require?

(require 'muttrc nil t)