From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Yes, please allow pre-configuration of first frame [was: Blink Cursor mode is off by default]
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 20:26:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8336xmzlq2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwouyirbd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 16 Jun 2018 13:20:21 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 13:20:21 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > The file could just run against a dummy frame that happens to look like the
> > GUI frame we'll eventually create.
>
> To reduce the breakage, the frame had batter be as real as possible
> (e.g. plain normal frame, just `invisible`), but still: what will happen
> when the .emacs code ends up prompting the user in the minibuffer?
What if we create and display a small special frame, "normal" enough
to support everything any .emacs could expect, but devoid of stuff
like the menu bar, the tool bar, and the scroll bars? Many
applications show something like that at startup, so I think that
would look "professional" enough.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-16 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-11 16:48 Blink Cursor mode is off by default Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-11 17:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-11 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-11 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-11 23:19 ` dancol
2018-06-12 2:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-12 2:33 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-12 4:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-12 4:12 ` dancol
2018-06-12 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-12 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-12 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-12 16:51 ` dancol
2018-06-15 14:14 ` Yes, please allow pre-configuration of first frame [was: Blink Cursor mode is off by default] N. Jackson
2018-06-15 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-15 21:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-16 14:37 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 17:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-16 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-06-16 17:33 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-12 15:24 ` Blink Cursor mode is off by default Stefan Monnier
2018-06-12 2:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-11 20:43 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-06-12 2:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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