bug#1113: marked as done (slash screen covers the *Messages* buffer when errors are present in .emacs)

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Your message dated Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:51:26 -0400
with message-id <87abdg9oap.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
and subject line Re: slash screen covers the *Messages* buffer when errors are 
present in .emacs
has caused the Emacs bug report #1113,
regarding slash screen covers the *Messages* buffer when errors are present in 
.emacs
to be marked as done.

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> slash screen covers the *Messages* buffer when errors are present in .emacs
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> Tue, 7 Oct 2008 08:34:52 -0700 (PDT)
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> Create a bad .emacs:
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> echo ")" > ~/.emacs
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> emacs&
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> Emacs starts up, it shows the *Messages* buffer that says that there are
> errors in .emacs, but the splash screens covers it before the user has
> time to read the information.
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> The splash screen should not be displayed at all in this case, the user
> has to have a chance to read the text in *Messages*.
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> Re: slash screen covers the *Messages* buffer when errors are present in .emacs
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> Date: 
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> Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:51:26 -0400
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> > Create a bad .emacs:
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> > echo ")" > ~/.emacs
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> > emacs&
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> > Emacs starts up, it shows the *Messages* buffer that says that there
> > are errors in .emacs, but the splash screens covers it before the user
> > has time to read the information.
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> I've tweaked startup.el to fix this.  Init file errors use
> display-warning, just like other startup errors.
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> Thanks.
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