Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:03:59 +0200
> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> CC: Reiner Steib <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> > If a non-trivial .emacs is loaded after Emacs starts, the effect might
> > be different from the same .emacs loaded at startup, due to the stage
> > of the startup sequence where .emacs is normally loaded.  This could
> > surprise users, unless we write a special load function that takes
> > care of these subtleties.
> 
> But is not that an argument in favor of the menu item then?

I don't see how what I wrote could be in favor or against the menu
item.

What I tried to say was that a simple (load "~/.emacs") is not what
this feature should do, whether from the menu bar or from some other
place.