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: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 19603 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#19603: 24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message.
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:48:52 -0500

>> 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.

It interacts poorly with hand customizations in ~/.emacs which typically
assume/need the packages to be initialized.

Note that the equivalent initialization (i.e. loading the autoloads) is
done (long) before loading the .emacs file for all the built-in packages.


        Stefan
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