From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 19603@debbugs.gnu.org, Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#19603: 24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message.
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:48:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvppafu0hl.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54B82E2F.7000105@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:16:31 +0300")
>> 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.
> But deferring packages initialization till after the init file has been
> loaded is a valid strategy.
It interacts poorly with hand customizations in ~/.emacs which typically
assume/need the packages to be initialized.
Note that the equivalent initialization (i.e. loading the autoloads) is
done (long) before loading the .emacs file for all the built-in packages.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-15 22:48 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
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 [this message]
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