It's not important in the sense as it does not impair daily work. It is more the appearance of a tool spilling debug information which gives a somewhat unprofessional look. That's about it. Am Di., 14. Jan. 2025 um 14:01 Uhr schrieb Eli Zaretskii : > > From: Johann Höchtl > > Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:14:08 +0100 > > > > I find the load messages during startup, caused by (custom-load-symbol > 'foo) disturbing. > > > > That is caused by the fact that the API of custom-load-symbaol has no > means to respect the setting of > > force-load-messages when loading a library. > > > > Please do note, that this analysis has been made by and is described in > more detail in > > > > > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/82904/disable-echo-area-during-startup/82924#82924 > > I don't think force-load-messages is what you want, because that > variable is used for the opposite purpose: to avoid suppressing > "Loading FOO..." messages. Whereas you want to suppress those > messages. > > I don't understand why you want to suppress those messages, though. > Those messages are normal in Emacs: they are shown every time Emacs > loads a Lisp package. custom-load is not special in any way in this > regard. > > Why is it important to suppress that? >