Re: Suppressing load messages

[Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie>]

jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:

> By the above I mean that what you're suggesting sounds like a
> workaround, and my workaround sounds like a solution.  Perhaps there's
> another way to redirect *Messages* from within Emacs.
>
> You can still redirect your output.  If you don't want that, then
> perhaps you need to reconsider why you're using --script.

Indeed. All I want it to use Emacs as a scripting language to write
little utilities, and that they behave just like utilities written in
Perl or Python. 

My thought processes were heading in the direction that the hash-bang
--script option is very new and not yet completely thought through, and
that a long-term solution might lie in hacking the start process.
Perhaps the start process should behave differently when invoked in with
--script. I suspect that completely ignoring the site-start structure
could be suboptimal (if there are site-wide settings that are
non-standard), but it is clearly inappropriate to load lots of
irrelevant files (and not just because of the chatter to STDERR).

It should be acceptable to writers of emacs-script utilities to
explicitly load anything that is needed.

Brendan
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