From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Halpin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Suppressing load messages Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:31:49 +0000 Message-ID: <87pru0rmai.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> References: <87tzjo3asi.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <87y78p2c4h.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> Reply-To: brendan.halpin@ul.ie NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205336529 27035 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2008 15:42:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:42:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 16:42:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZT5O-0005fs-Oi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:41:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZT4h-0007Bb-1r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:41:03 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: individual.net vPzy2HVVDjw4FcoYrHEKaQQPh6YXvl1a4zRxPbhcSYKE6S5ALk Cancel-Lock: sha1:7WkmzX+drM4TsYLD/Jt00FMFNz8= sha1:12W9QEbEjN5TDtdFdC9fwNGWTy8= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156925 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52296 Archived-At: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes: > This is all STDERR, i.e. the *Messages* buffer. If you redirect STDERR > or STDOUT, you can suppress the messages, or capture the output in a file. > > For example, "hello 2 The real question you should be asking is why emacs is loading all that > crap when you're using the --script option. Who's in charge of your > site-start.el? Indeed. In practice Debian are in charge, but there's nothing to stop me changing it -- now all I need is to know (i) how to tell at startup if emacs is invoked with --script and (ii) how to interfere with the site-start.d process. Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F2-025 x 3147 mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html