From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Prevent Info Screen on Emacs Startup Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:09:57 -0400 Message-ID: <466aa433$1@news.greennet.net> References: <136e53m2btcl115@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181310121 17103 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2007 13:42:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:42:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 08 15:41:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hweiy-0004Z0-MM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:41:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hweiy-0002gh-8U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:41:56 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; AIX 000C89FF4C00; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040617 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <136e53m2btcl115@corp.supernews.com> Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 Original-X-Trace: 9 Jun 2007 08:59:31 -0400, 192.91.197.52 Original-Lines: 17 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!nntpserver.com!zeus.nntpserver.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!feedme.ziplink.net!news.greennet.net!192.91.197.52 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149204 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44791 Archived-At: My standard answer to startup complaints is to use the emacs client/server model. Start up emacs once and then leave it running forever as a server. Edit new files using the emacs client. This solves all the typical "slow startup" complaints as well as your splash screen issue. Joe Hesse wrote: > I have emacs 22.0.990.1. Using Fedora 7 with Gnome. > > When I start emacs from a command shell under Gnome, like: > $ emacs myfile.txt & > the emacs editor starts with an info screen. I can get rid of the info > screen with ctrl-l. > > I would prefer that this info screen not be there and I am immediately > editing myfile.txt. How do I do this?