Quick tip: Disabling version control in Emacs (Shallow Thoughts)

Quick tip: Disabling version control in Emacs

For some time I've been mildly annoyed that whenever I start emacs and open a file that's under any sort of version control -- cvs, svn, git or whatever -- I can't start editing right away, because emacs has to pause for a while and load a bunch of version-control cruft I never use. Sometimes it also causes problems later, when I try to write to the file or if I update the directory.

It wasn't obvious what keywords to search for, but I finally found a combination, emacs prevent OR disable autoload vc (the vc was the important part), which led me to the solution (found on this page):

;; Disable all version control
(setq vc-handled-backends nil)

Files load much faster now!

Tags: editors, emacs, git, tip
[ 13:11 Feb 04, 2011    More linux/editors | permalink to this entry | ]