Re: How to print from/debug startup.el (normal-top-level)

[dalanicolai]

Thanks for these very informative suggestions also

Although, when trying to run temacs this morning, it reported some keymap issue;

and trying it again now, I get a: Symbol's function definition is void: file-name-sans-extension

I do know where to poke around now, and probably will enjoy the fruits of these suggestions soon

On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 09:39, Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

On 2022-03-09 05:03, dalanicolai wrote:
>> Those files are preloaded into the "pdump" file (a file with name
>> <foo>.pdmp)
>> (you can see in `lisp/loadup.el` which are those files that are
>> preloaded).
>
> Ah, yes, I suspected something like that already, but could not
> really find more info about it.

If you build Emacs yourself then you can run the compiled src/temacs
executable which will then load loadup.el at run time.  That should
let you see the effects of modifying those files without recompiling
each time.

You can also configure and build Emacs using:

./configure --with-dumping=none

in which case the final 'emacs' executable will be identical to temacs
and behave that way always; but that's probably not really what you
want.


-Phil