Subject: Re: Re: slash screen covers the *Messages* buffer when errors are present in .emacs

From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:27:52 +0200

Chong Yidong wrote:
>> Create a bad .emacs:
>>
>> echo ")" > ~/.emacs
>>
>> emacs&
>>
>> Emacs starts up, it shows the *Messages* buffer that says that there
>> are errors in .emacs, but the splash screens covers it before the user
>> has time to read the information.
> 
> I've tweaked startup.el to fix this.  Init file errors use
> display-warning, just like other startup errors.

Didn't we discuss this before? The disadvantage of using display-warning
is that you can't see the relation to other messages in the *Messages*
buffer.

Unless, of course the message goes to the message buffer too.

> Thanks.