From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: splash screen display when Emacs is given arguments Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 21:53:41 +0000 (UTC) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1022050493.16292.4101.camel@space-ghost> <200205242112.g4OLCfL02643@aztec.santafe.edu> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1022277225 1041 127.0.0.1 (24 May 2002 21:53:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 21:53:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: walters@verbum.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17BN0L-0000Gg-00 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 23:53:45 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17BNGP-0005JI-00 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 00:10:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17BN0p-0007RB-00; Fri, 24 May 2002 17:54:15 -0400 Original-Received: from megalith.rattlesnake.com ([140.186.114.245] helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17BN0I-0007Nc-00; Fri, 24 May 2002 17:53:43 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) Fri, 24 May 2002 21:53:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200205242112.g4OLCfL02643@aztec.santafe.edu> (message from Richard Stallman on Fri, 24 May 2002 15:12:41 -0600 (MDT)) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4358 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4358 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