From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Frame size changes Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:37:12 +0200 Message-ID: <48E93388.7010409@gmail.com> References: <877i8qvq5k.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <48E5C4E5.9040400@swipnet.se> <873ajdtuhz.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <48E7191F.7060407@swipnet.se> <87od1y99gi.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87tzbqlpbp.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223242658 17391 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2008 21:37:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 21:37:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 05 23:38:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KmbJC-0008Vy-UY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:38:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56270 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KmbI9-0004m2-7Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:37:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KmbI4-0004lx-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KmbI2-0004lk-AZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43630 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KmbI2-0004lh-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:37:22 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:54516) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KmbI0-00026i-CG; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:37:20 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:64011 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KmbHy-0002bC-5y; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:37:19 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87tzbqlpbp.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 081004-0, 2008-10-04), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KmbHy-0002bC-5y. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KmbHy-0002bC-5y fdcac170e6d925f3a49a7a9a0d5e9694 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:104356 Archived-At: Chong Yidong wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> If all you need is a flag saying that Emacs is being initialized, why >> does it have to bear the value of current-time? why not just some >> simple predicate? What am I missing? > > before-init-time and after-init-time have already been introduced in > Emacs 23; see NEWS. The former is used for the new function > emacs-uptime, the latter I'm unsure about. The documentation for before-init-time is a bit unclear. Exactly when is it set? > Since these variables already exist, my feeling is that it's better to > use them rather than to come up with a new flag saying that Emacs is > being initialized. > > >