(One more follow-up, and request for help...) [Note: This problem now appears to me to be non-debian specific, but I thought I should keep the discussion here since this is where it started a few weeks ago. Any help will be appreciated, and I am happy to take suggestions on cross-posting or moving the discussion. -JMR]
As mentioned a few weeks ago, in emacs it often takes four to six seconds to load a TeX file, while a mysterious "Updating...done" message appears in the minibuffer. This can be traced to the file latex.elc (source: latex.el) in the auctex package. Unfortunately, I cannot decipher the source to find out what causes such a great delay (no, four to six seconds isn't that long to paint a house, but it is mighty annoying when loading several files in a row, or switching between files). I would greatly appreciate it if an emacs-lisp afficionado would take a look at latex.el (from debian-0.93/source/tex/auctex-9.2y-7.tar.gz), at or after line 1850 (are .el and .elc files read sequentially by emacs?), and provide a pointer or two. Maybe one just has to live with this or get rid of auctex; please advise. Thanks. John
