From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davis Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New start up splash screen annoyance... Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:08:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <34475.128.165.123.18.1190066900.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> References: <87sl5n5yem.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87fy1nbe4f.fsf@jurta.org> <86myvu2zw1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <20070912093913.GB12104@saeurebad.de> <87wsuum8qw.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190066929 11010 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2007 22:08:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:08:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , wilde@sha-bang.de, hannes@saeurebad.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Richard Stallman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 18 00:08:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IXOlo-0004QW-5M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:08:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXOlm-0000xn-T3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:08:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXOli-0000wp-UG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:08:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXOli-0000vz-5A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXOlh-0000vw-VB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IXOld-0005us-Nj; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:08:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (mailrelay1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.101]) by mailwasher.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.6/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l8HM8RBs019749; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:08:27 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l8HM8LZp010025; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:08:21 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l8HM8LJR023681; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:08:21 -0600 Original-Received: (from apache@localhost) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id l8HM8KjG023676; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:08:20 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: webmail1.lanl.gov: apache set sender to herring@lanl.gov using -f Original-Received: from 128.165.123.18 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:08:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-6.el3.2lanl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-CTN-5-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php X-CTN-5-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CTN-5-MailScanner-From: herring@lanl.gov X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:79134 Archived-At: > When I want to do this, I start Emacs and then visit the file. > What's the advantage of specifying the file name as a command arg? $ type -a foobar foobar is /usr/bin/foobar $ file `type -p foobar` /usr/bin/foobar: a bash script text executable $ emacs !$ After the second command, the user thinks "Oh! I can view/edit this!". Especially as the path can be arbitrarily long, it can be quite useful to have the shell (or file(1), or...) generate it. Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.