GNU bug report logs - #19603
24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 06:22:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.4.51

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>, Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 19603 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19603: 24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message.
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:16:31 +0300

On 01/15/2015 06:12 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Maybe the best option is to emit some
> message at startup in the following case:
> - there are packages installed.
> - the .emacs file is non-empty.
> - there is no call to package-initialize in the .emacs file.

But deferring packages initialization till after the init file has been 
loaded is a valid strategy.

Maybe instead `require' should be advised during init file loading to do 
something smart if the feature isn't found, but corresponds to a file in 
.emacs.d/elpa/**/.
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