From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some developement questions Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:41:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87sh36inql.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <8336v6cvem.fsf@gnu.org> <8736v6icgt.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83tvnmb958.fsf@gnu.org> <877ekigiiw.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <837ekhb2me.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhxcbmtr.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83in409lub.fsf@gnu.org> <871sanb71j.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <87k1oeaofu.fsf@ada> <20180825103413.gbm5stsl67j6weow@Ergus> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535316113 30527 195.159.176.226 (26 Aug 2018 20:41:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 20:41:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hw@adminart.net, spacibba@aol.com, flexibeast@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Radon Rosborough Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 26 22:41:48 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1r1-0007ow-Qr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 22:41:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50312 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1t7-0004Yo-LL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:43:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1rg-0004Ua-3g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1re-0008UN-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49911) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1rB-0007s8-0f; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:41:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1rA-0008Em-Ns; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:41:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Radon Rosborough on Sat, 25 Aug 2018 10:11:38 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228950 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > If the messages are just printed in the message buffer it shouldn't > > impact too much the startup time I think. > To do the kind of analysis you are talking about, one would have to > hook into really basic subroutines like `setq`. If the goal is to give warnings when certain variables are set in .emacs, It might be possible to do an almost complete job of that by advising setq and a few friends around the loading of .emacs. People who want the highest startup speed could turn this off, and completely avoid the slowdown. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)