From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New start up splash screen annoyance... Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:43:51 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87wsuum8qw.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87sl5n5yem.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87fy1nbe4f.fsf@jurta.org> <86myvu2zw1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <20070912093913.GB12104@saeurebad.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189728357 15003 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2007 00:05:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:05:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: wilde@sha-bang.de, hannes@saeurebad.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 02:05:52 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 1IVygB-0000Zh-D2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:05:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IVygA-0005vD-SM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IVyg7-0005sQ-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IVyg6-0005r2-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:04:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IVyg6-0005qu-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:04:58 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IVyg2-0007BJ-7K; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:04:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IVyfq-000CRQ-4t; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:04:50 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 12 Sep 2007 14\:52\:31 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 7b6940144bc5d56bdacd12344196c2df X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1468 [September 13 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 25 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:78807 Archived-At: > File name arguments did not implement themselves, you know; > I specifically wrote the code to implement them, even though I think > it's a bad habit. > > However, the Emacs manual encourages people not to get into that bad habit. There are cases where starting Emacs with a file name command line argument is fully justified: for instance, logging into a remote computer only to fix one config file. Many users preferred using vi for such tasks because vi was faster to start. However, on modern hardware emacs startup time is comparable to vi. The only drawback Emacs has for such scenarios is that unlike vi, Emacs displays the annoying startup screen instead of the requested file. After replacing the Emacs startup screen with a message saying how to get more help, we can win more vi users! -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/