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

[Stefan Monnier]

> > I'd much rather that no frame (and no splash screen) are created before
> > reading .emacs, messages from the execution of .emacs are sent to
> > stderr or stdout as if in batch mode, and only when the .emacs
> > has been loaded create the initial frame.
> 
> I guess this would be hard to make happen, since some of the
> customizations on .emacs assume a live frame, and will either barf or
                          ^
                        might

> be silently ignored if there's no frame whose data structures we can frob.

You're quite right that it wouldn't be a transparent change, but we do
make incompatible changes every once in a while.  Of course whether
it's worth it or not, I don't know.


        Stefan