From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: 19603@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19603: 24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message.
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:12:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv61c8w05g.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnm0zhrl.fsf@gmail.com> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:21:02 +0100")
> Now emacs packages are widely used,
> it would be great to improve the startup message of emacs with a link
> about how to quickly setup package.el to be usable.
> I have regularly people complaining "It is not working" because
> they install packages through package.el and they don't add in their
> init file `package-initialize',
Right, we do call package-initialize automatically for them, but we do
it "too late" in many cases. Maybe the best option is to emit some
message at startup in the following case:
- there are packages installed.
- the .emacs file is non-empty.
- there is no call to package-initialize in the .emacs file.
> or they try compiling autoload file etc...
No idea how/why they'd do that, hence no idea how to help them
understand they shouldn't/needn't do it. This said, it should do no
harm, does it?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-15 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-15 6:21 bug#19603: 24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-15 14:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-01-15 15:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-01-15 15:40 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2018-02-17 14:25 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-01-15 21:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-15 22:48 ` Stefan Monnier
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