Re: display-time-* variables

[Eli Zaretskii]

> cc: levy@msri.org, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: Silvio Levy <levy@msri.org>
> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:27:02 -0800
> 
> Do you have any light to shed on display-time-load-average? 
> 
> Whether the file "foo" contains this text
> 
> (setq display-time-load-average t)
> (display-time)
> 
> or the same text with "nil" instead of "t", the result of  
> 
> /usr/bin/emacs -Q -l foo
> 
> is the same: the load average is shown

That's expected: display-time-load-average is not a user option.  It
is the value of the load average shown in the mode line.

> (I suppose I could instead set display-time-load-average-threshold to
> a high value, which does work.

That is the right way of disabling the load average display.