Re: how could the mighty emacs lack --fullscreen ?

[Jan D.]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> 
>     > Precisely how do you specify that you do not want a menu bar?
>     > Do you use initial-frame-alist?  Do you use an X resource?
> 
>     In my .emacs I had
> 
>     (menu-bar-mode -1)
> 
> For all such things, you need to specify them with an X resource
> if you want them to take effect immediately before the window
> is displayed.  This is because Emacs displays the frame
> before it processes your .emacs file.  So any changes that .emacs
> makes take effect after the frame appears.
> 
> There are good reasons to do that--for instance, so you can
> see error messages and debug if you ask to.  But it has
> a bad effect in this case.
> 
> Does anyone have ideas for a way to get the best results in all cases?

Is it feasible to have a splash-screen that displays messages during startup
and after .emacs is read, it goes away and is replaced with the initial frame? 
If you have requested debugging, the initial frame would have to displayed at
once, I guess.

Just an idea.

        Jan D.