Re: Suppressing load messages

[Brendan Halpin]

jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:

> This is all STDERR, i.e. the *Messages* buffer.  If you redirect STDERR
> or STDOUT, you can suppress the messages, or capture the output in a file.
>
> For example, "hello 2</dev/null"

Yes, but that's not a solution so much as a workaround.

> The real question you should be asking is why emacs is loading all that
> crap when you're using the --script option.  Who's in charge of your
> site-start.el?

Indeed. In practice Debian are in charge, but there's nothing to stop me
changing it -- now all I need is to know (i) how to tell at startup if emacs
is invoked with --script and (ii) how to interfere with the site-start.d
process. 

Brendan
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