Subject: bug#1113 closed by Chong Yidong <[email-masked]> (Re: slash screen covers the *Messages* buffer when errors are present in .emacs)

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#1113: slash screen covers the *Messages* buffer when errors are present in .emacs

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>From [email-masked] Tue Oct  7 12:49:56 2008
From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: slash screen covers the *Messages* buffer when errors are present in .emacs
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:51:26 -0400

> 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.

Thanks.

>From [email-masked] Tue Oct  7 08:35:23 2008
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 08:34:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: slash screen covers the *Messages* buffer when errors are present in .emacs
Lines: 13

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.

The splash screen should not be displayed at all in this case, the user
has to have a chance to read the text in *Messages*.