Re: Splash screen problems

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

'Evening, Eli!

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:10:04AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > I recently tried to disable Emacs 22's splash screen (aka startup
> > message) because it was getting on my nerves.  As a first try, I put
> > "(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)" into my site-start.el

> What a bizarre thing to do in site-start.el!!  Why don't have mercy on
> the other poor users of your system?

The other users are me and me.  ;-)  I don't think that's that unusual
for users of PCs nowadays.

> > (since the irritation is just as intense when I start Emacs as
> > root).

> root can have a .emacs file as well, you know.

Yes, but copying and pasting between them isn't a very good idea, because
there are bugs even in my .emacs, my other .emacs and my third .emacs.
So things that I want for all "users", I put in site-start.el, so that
they only need debugging once.

Did you look at my patches?

-- 
Alan.