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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Reiner Steib <address@hidden>,
>     address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:46:17 +0900
> 
>  > 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,
> 
> You're right about the logic, but I've never heard of such a problem in
> 10 years of reading XEmacs lists daily.
> 
>  > unless we write a special load function that takes care of these
>  > subtleties.
> 
> In XEmacs, basically the only things that happen after loading the
> init files are (1) defvar'ing the user's mail address to a computed
> default, (2) putting text into the scratch buffer, and (3) running
> after-init-hook (these are not necessarily in order, but they're
> almost certainly independent).  (Note that "load-user-init-file" is a
> misnomer in that default.el gets loaded too, unless the user
> suppresses it.)

I was more thinking about setting the various frame parameters
(including for the initial frame) and the various hooks the user could
set from .emacs, such as window-setup-hook, emacs-startup-hook, etc.