Guided Tour autoload output appearing on startup.

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Jun 11 10:58:34 EDT 2007


Malcolm Purvis writes:

 > Running the latest 21.5 and packages from CVS, I'm seeing some autoload
 > output when I start up:
 > 
 > laptop$ xemacs -vanilla
 > 
 > Loading guided-tour...
 > Loading guided-tour...done
 > 
 > I remember this being a problem a while ago with the xwem package.

That was due to really broken practice in xwem.  This is a bug
(introduced by me, to be specific).

 > Is there a way to provide generic support to stop this from happening?

My take is that it's a bad idea.  The underlying bug here is that the
package needs to be refactored so that only the needed code gets into
auto-autoloads, or a library created for this purpose is explicitly
loaded with the NOMESSAGE flag (a la vc-hooks).  If we just suppress
the message, then you could get all of calc and gnus loaded at
startup, and you'd never know why the startup sequence time
doubled. ;-)





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