From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: 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 13:20:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwouyirbd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5cc07aef-9c8b-4a5b-8cdb-3d003bed7151@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Sat, 16 Jun 2018 07:37:07 -0700")
>>> It doesn't sound right, though, that a fix for this should
>>> involve the user having to mess around with intiialisation
>>> order etc. -- it should "just work".
>>>
>>> It seems that this might be a worthwhile project for "someone"
>>> to work on? (Perhaps they could fix the problem of not being
>>> able to un-apply themes at the same time?)
>>
>> I don't really understand what you suggest doing: the .emacs file is
>> read *after* creating the first frame, so there's no way to avoid
>> "flashing" without breaking some .emacs files.
>
> 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?
It will inevitably introduce changes which in some cases are undesirable,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-16 17:20 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 [this message]
2018-06-16 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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