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From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Cc: walters@verbum.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: splash screen display when Emacs is given arguments
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 21:53:41 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m17BN0H-000If6C@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205242112.g4OLCfL02643@aztec.santafe.edu> (message from Richard Stallman on Fri, 24 May 2002 15:12:41 -0600 (MDT))

       Up until fairly recently, if you gave Emacs any command line arguments
       (e.g. a filename, or -f function), Emacs wouldn't display the splash
       screen on startup.

   I made this change so that users who always run Emacs with a file name
   would see the splash screen.  It used to be some of them would never
   see it, and never learn the info it offers.

This is a good reason: people who start Emacs with a file name really,
really need to learn about Emacs, since starting with a file name
generally indicates a wasteful and wrong way to approach Emacs.  

-- 
    Robert J. Chassell                  bob@rattlesnake.com
    Rattlesnake Enterprises             http://www.rattlesnake.com

      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-24 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-22  6:54 splash screen display when Emacs is given arguments Colin Walters
2002-05-23  2:39 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-23  5:30   ` Pavel Janík
2002-05-24 12:06   ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-05-26 20:59     ` Colin Walters
2002-05-23 12:39 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-23 23:34   ` Colin Walters
2002-05-24 21:14     ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-26 20:57       ` Colin Walters
2002-05-27  1:15         ` Miles Bader
2002-05-27 22:56           ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-27  5:22         ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-27 18:44           ` Colin Walters
2002-05-29 10:16             ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-24 21:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-24 21:53   ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]

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