From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Suvayu Ali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: site-start.el: inhibit-startup-screen? Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 14:04:46 -0700 Message-ID: <4BF4526E.8080401@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274303145 26413 80.91.229.12 (19 May 2010 21:05:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 21:05:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 19 23:05:44 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEqSS-0006k8-W5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 23:05:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40001 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OEqSS-0005K8-1j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 17:05:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42555 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OEqS3-0005Jx-C4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 17:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEqS1-0005xL-RY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 17:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pv0-f169.google.com ([74.125.83.169]:46126) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEqS1-0005xD-Mw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 17:05:13 -0400 Original-Received: by pvh11 with SMTP id 11so51016pvh.0 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 14:05:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dfkjI6AxHbf91DLTQt5rKZDHYfQk3z1xEWLC0pl5UTg=; b=PMANlGOixeL1H2Kl2Uz7WFdDJzc+dSdvP0FraGZizENrc4cx66rHQeHweGDsL9WqTS IW4ZRyO3LFgpWiv5uDtG1fgewKudDnX9cEbuSZR3oSLMj1j7hlNzcB8YIlgjXOsAe4Sp S4Oz+hMCsT47iDN3MiKjYtBFEWDU26llsHG2o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Nf3xUJQRjcnJycL/9yUeGYjUaNcz0Sol0q/x7xtFiYGd2L7qp4nVE2ae3OV7MEd0Jc GL+BaIWofHsOWDYIFvgnt72ZVRO7YRLDm/V3ctJYHn2s90cF9H5TXVGmZDGOeTGn1kFJ 05kOQGxo/n/npblGqAohwS8Cd+I4jGM/t6eJQ= Original-Received: by 10.142.202.15 with SMTP id z15mr141870wff.281.1274303112211; Wed, 19 May 2010 14:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [142.58.122.14] (p8460-6.phys.sfu.ca [142.58.122.14]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r20sm71023888wam.5.2010.05.19.14.05.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 19 May 2010 14:05:11 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100423 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:73681 Archived-At: On Wednesday 19 May 2010 08:02 AM, Stefan Vollmar wrote: > Hello, > > we need to have an internal rollout of Emacs where we want to put some institute-specific defaults in a site-start.el (or default.el) file. I can see why one generally should not set "inhibit-startup-screen" as a default for new users, in our case (we try to provide internal documentation and courses) it seems justified. If we put > > (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) > > in site-start.el we still get the Emacs splashscreen. Is there a way to avoid the splashscreen other than using user-specific .emacs files? > How about using a /etc/skeleton.emacs with that variable set. Then every new user has that setting saved in their dotemacs. Which they can still change if they want to. :) > Many thanks in advance. > Warm regards, > Stefan -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.