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Re: Frame size changes


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Frame size changes
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:23:25 +0200

> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:11:38 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > If all you need is a flag saying that Emacs is being initialized, why
> > does it have to bear the value of current-time? why not just some
> > simple predicate?  What am I missing?
> 
> before-init-time and after-init-time have already been introduced in
> Emacs 23; see NEWS.  The former is used for the new function
> emacs-uptime, the latter I'm unsure about.
> 
> Since these variables already exist, my feeling is that it's better to
> use them rather than to come up with a new flag saying that Emacs is
> being initialized.

It is still not clean, IMO, to use these variables in order to decide
if we are initializing.  For starters, I'm not sure it will work if
Emacs is dumped a second time.




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