Re: Next release

[Jason Rumney]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> On X11, when I start `emacs', the first thing that happens is to open
> a frame, with the toolbar, and only after that is the .emacs
> file loaded.
>
> So how can Emacs-22 on W32 avoid loading the image libraries before
> loading the .emacs, other than by not displaying the tool-bar, and if so
> how does it avoid displaying the tool-bar before loading the .emacs?
>   

I don't know how, but when Emacs starts on Windows, the frame is blank. 
When messages start appearing as .emacs is loaded, the mode-line and 
echo area are drawn, but the rest of the frame, including toolbar, is 
only drawn after .emacs has been loaded.

I don't think this is done especially for the toolbar images, Emacs has 
always started like this on Windows.