Prevent Info Screen on Emacs Startup

Prevent Info Screen on Emacs Startup

[Joe Hesse]

Hi,

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?

Thank you,
Joe Hesse 

Re: Prevent Info Screen on Emacs Startup

[Robert D. Crawford]

"Joe Hesse" <joe_hesse@actcx.com> writes:

> 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?

I think this is what you are looking for:

inhibit-splash-screen is a variable defined in `startup.el'.
Its value is t


Documentation:
Non-nil inhibits the startup screen.
It also inhibits display of the initial message in the `*scratch*' buffer.

This is for use in your personal init file (but NOT site-start.el), once
you are familiar with the contents of the startup screen.

You can customize this variable.

rdc
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Re: Prevent Info Screen on Emacs Startup

[Ken Goldman]

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?

Re: Prevent Info Screen on Emacs Startup

[Tim X]

Ken Goldman <kgold@watson.ibm.com> writes:

> 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.
>

Using the emacs client stuff is good. However, to answer the OPs original
question, you can disable the splash screen with a command line switch (I think
it might be -no-splash or something similar). 

You can probably get rid of it through customize or X resources as well.
However, I'm not sure as I've never bothered (because I don't start emacs that
often - leave it running for weeks at a time).

Tim

> 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?

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tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au

Re: Prevent Info Screen on Emacs Startup

[poppyer]

I think somebody has point out the solution several days ago
add this to .emacs file


;; Supress the GNU startup message
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)


Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:

> Ken Goldman <kgold@watson.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Using the emacs client stuff is good. However, to answer the OPs original
> question, you can disable the splash screen with a command line switch (I think
> it might be -no-splash or something similar). 
> 
> You can probably get rid of it through customize or X resources as well.
> However, I'm not sure as I've never bothered (because I don't start emacs that
> often - leave it running for weeks at a time).
> 
> Tim
> 
> > 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?
> 
> -- 
> tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au

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