From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New start up splash screen annoyance... 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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:79239 Richard Stallman writes: > To make an argument which incorporates a premise that I've already > said I think is wrong is not useful as an argument. So if you keep > repeating such arguments, I can only interpret this as an attempt to > bully me. I won't give in to bullying, so you may as well stop it. Richard, we all want what's best for Emacs. We all love Emacs and want it to be The Editor. Please don't interpret our arguments for or against a particular change as "bullying". Anyway, here's another data point: On our site, we use Emacs as the default editor when editing crontabs. When we say $ crontab -e we get an Emacs that's been started with a file name as an argument. This now displays the splash screen instead of the crontab. I don't think that's an optimal way for Emacs to behave. Is your mind made up that this is the way Emacs must behave, or are there any arguments that might change your mind? At least, with "emacs -nw" (as the crontab thing is called), it seems counter productive to show the splash screen, in my opinion. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen