A recent Tumbleweed update also updated Emacs to version 27.1. As a side-effect, now when emacs is started, it prints like 200 “loading” messages, which is highly annoying (I start emacs from a command line shell all the time, and this flood of messages is extraordinarily annoying). The previous version didn’t do this.
What is causing it, and how to silence it?
If this is not the right place to ask this, then where can I ask?
Starting emacs-gtk directly does not print the “loading” messages (with the exception of some strange “Warning: game dir ‘/var/games/emacs’: Permission denied” message). Does that mean that from this time forward I need to start ‘emacs-gtk’ instead of ‘emacs’?
If this is not the right place to ask, then where?
It is most definitely not normal that suddenly emacs does this. It must have something to do with a chance done to opensuse. But what? And how to fix it?
If nobody here has the faintest idea, then who does? If this is not the correct place to report such things and/or ask for fixes, then where? Where can I ask this?
I do not use EMACS but I gave it a spin and the one included in TW currently indeed does have this issue - however the one in the Editors: repo does not.
zypper ar -f https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/editors/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/editors.repo
zypper in emacs-27.1
Should do the job. I’m guessing TW will get the fix for this issue in the next update but if it annoys you too much, you can use the version in the editors repo to circumvent it for now.
Thank you for the hint.
It appears that the problem has been fixed and doesn’t happen anymore.