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Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:58:00 +0300 |
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Reiner Steib <address@hidden>,
> address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:46:17 +0900
>
> > If a non-trivial .emacs is loaded after Emacs starts, the effect might
> > be different from the same .emacs loaded at startup, due to the stage
> > of the startup sequence where .emacs is normally loaded. This could
> > surprise users,
>
> You're right about the logic, but I've never heard of such a problem in
> 10 years of reading XEmacs lists daily.
>
> > unless we write a special load function that takes care of these
> > subtleties.
>
> In XEmacs, basically the only things that happen after loading the
> init files are (1) defvar'ing the user's mail address to a computed
> default, (2) putting text into the scratch buffer, and (3) running
> after-init-hook (these are not necessarily in order, but they're
> almost certainly independent). (Note that "load-user-init-file" is a
> misnomer in that default.el gets loaded too, unless the user
> suppresses it.)
I was more thinking about setting the various frame parameters
(including for the initial frame) and the various hooks the user could
set from .emacs, such as window-setup-hook, emacs-startup-hook, etc.
- 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Reiner Steib, 2008/04/04
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/04/05
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/05
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/04/05
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/05
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/04/06
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/06
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/04/07
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/07
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/04/07
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/07