splash screen misleading

splash screen misleading

[Martin Haase]

Hi,

the new behaviour (i.e. showing the splash screen even if a filename
argument to visit had been given) it is very misleading and quite
counter-intuitive. if i start emacs with a filename, i expect that
file to appear immediately. if that doesn't happen, i figure emacs
hasn't actually opened the file at all..

Cheers,
Martin

In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i586-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
 of 2007-11-06 on balada
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60801000
configured using `configure  '--with-gcc' '--with-pop' 
'--without-hesiod' '--with-kerberos' '--with-kerberos5' '--with-leim' 
'--with-xim' '--with-system-malloc' '--prefix=/usr' 
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' 
'--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' 
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--with-x' '--with-sound' '--with-xpm' 
'--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' 
'--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--x-includes=/usr/include' 
'--x-libraries=/usr/lib:/usr/share/X11' '--build=i586-suse-linux-gnu' 
'build_alias=i586-suse-linux-gnu' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i586 
-mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 
-fstack-protector -g -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing      -D_GNU_SOURCE     
 -Wno-pointer-sign      -Wno-unused-variable      -Wno-unused-label  
-DSYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA=55000      -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=10000 ' 
'LDFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<escape> x r e p <tab> o <tab> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
("emacs" "--no-splash" "grid-mapfile")
Loading paren...done
Loading encoded-kb...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Making completion list...
Loading help-mode...done
Making completion list...
Loading emacsbug...
Loading regexp-opt...done
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Re: splash screen misleading

[Chong Yidong]

> the new behaviour (i.e. showing the splash screen even if a filename
> argument to visit had been given) it is very misleading and quite
> counter-intuitive. if i start emacs with a filename, i expect that
> file to appear immediately. if that doesn't happen, i figure emacs
> hasn't actually opened the file at all..

This behavior will be altered in Emacs 22.2.  If you like, you can try
out the new system in the 22.1.90 pretest at
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/, or Emacs CVS.

Thanks.