Re: Next release

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Cc: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>         Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,
>         Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 18:06:45 +0900
> 
> 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.

Yes, this was a source of considerable pain during Emacs 21.1
development, and is the reason for the horrible jumps through the
hoops with frame-notice-user-settings and its ilk.