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bug#19603: 24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message.
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#19603: 24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message. |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:12:42 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Now emacs packages are widely used,
> it would be great to improve the startup message of emacs with a link
> about how to quickly setup package.el to be usable.
> I have regularly people complaining "It is not working" because
> they install packages through package.el and they don't add in their
> init file `package-initialize',
Right, we do call package-initialize automatically for them, but we do
it "too late" in many cases. 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.
> or they try compiling autoload file etc...
No idea how/why they'd do that, hence no idea how to help them
understand they shouldn't/needn't do it. This said, it should do no
harm, does it?
Stefan