From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bootstrap from scratch Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 23:26:06 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200505051718.j45HIrFG002303@emr.cs.iit.edu> <87fyx11pm0.fsf@vera.springies.com> <87vf5xzdbb.fsf@vera.springies.com> <6loebpo2mg.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115419801 5241 80.91.229.2 (6 May 2005 22:50:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 22:50:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: reingold@emr.cs.iit.edu, gmorris+emacs@ast.cam.ac.uk, ats@acm.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 00:49:58 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUBdh-00009t-MX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 00:49:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUBlV-00087v-F5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 18:57:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUBkF-0007CQ-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 18:56:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUBkC-0007Am-Lv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 18:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUBkC-0007AQ-F1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 18:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DUBoN-0007LT-QK; Fri, 06 May 2005 19:00:48 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j46Msqch029924; Fri, 6 May 2005 23:54:53 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6183DDEB5; Fri, 6 May 2005 23:26:25 +0100 (BST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 06 May 2005 14:51:40 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) 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:36782 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36782 Richard Stallman writes: > Perhaps a better approach is to start a timer on load, and if appt is > not "activated" within a few seconds, then warn the user that loading > the package no longer activates it, and tell them the prefered way of > activating appt (usually via an autoloaded function). > > This could be a good approach. But I am not sure, because probably > most people that use this package activate it from the .emacs file. That was why I suggested using a timer, to give the rest of .emacs time to be processed.