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Hello again list,
I'm still trying to make batchmode emacs silently load site files.
Despite the warnings about advising builtins, advising `load' so that
it is always called with `NOMESSAGE' works:
(defadvice load (before quiet-loading activate)
(ad-set-arg 2 t))
However, making sure that this advice is added before anything is
loaded is not easy. I have tried adding it to `before-init-hook' and
dumping a new emacs, but calling dump-emacs causes a segfault.
Apparently dumping a dumped emacs ceased to work years ago[1].
My other approach was to invoke emacs with -Q, advise `load' and then
load site-run-file. That doesn't work either, as with -Q,
site-run-file is undefined:
$ emacs -Q -batch -eval "(print site-run-file)"
nil
$
(As I'm writing this code for automake, I could check site-run-file
during configure and save it, but that's not the main problem.)
Unfortunately, debian has seen fit to patch lisp/startup.el[2], which
means that to correctly load everything now means checking if it's a
debianised emacs (and other distros could cause similar mischief).
Are there any other command-line flags or environment variables that I
could use to silence the initial loading messages? If not, are there
any in the development pipeline?
Thanks,
-- Jack
[1]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2004-02/msg00207.html
[2]:
http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/emacs24/24.1+1-4/0002-Run-debian-startup-and-set-debian-emacs-flavor.patch