Re: Next release

[David Kastrup]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> Miles Bader wrote:
>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>   
>>> It would be worthwhile to start mapping Emacs usually only after .emacs
>>> has been processed and/or the command line processed.  That way you can
>>> select fonts, geometry, toolbar or not and so on in .emacs and have
>>> emacs start right away without resizing or flicker.
>>>     
>>
>> I would _love_ it if Emacs did this, but IIRC, Gerd tried that, and got
>> shot down because it was incompatible with wacky code in people's .emacs
>> files.
>>
>> Maybe now's the time to revisit the issue though.
>
> Another problem with it is that it would appear that nothing is
> happening as Emacs is starting.

Everybody else does that, too.  Possibly after doing something that
changes the mouse pointer to "busy".  Don't see a problem with that.

-- 
David Kastrup