Re: Some developement questions

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > If the messages are just printed in the message buffer it shouldn't
  > > impact too much the startup time I think.

  > To do the kind of analysis you are talking about, one would have to
  > hook into really basic subroutines like `setq`.

If the goal is to give warnings when certain variables are set in
.emacs, It might be possible to do an almost complete job of that by
advising setq and a few friends around the loading of .emacs.  People
who want the highest startup speed could turn this off, and completely
avoid the slowdown.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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