From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Splash screen problems Date: 8 Apr 2007 23:41:55 +0200 Message-ID: <20070408230118.GB1395@muc.de> References: <20070408143841.GB6804@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176068560 31953 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2007 21:42:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 21:42:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 08 23:42:17 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Haf9M-0004K5-AD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:42:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HafD6-0004BU-H3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:46:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HafCw-00045J-RJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:45:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HafCu-00044I-PB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:45:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HafCu-000447-Il for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1] helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Haf99-0004aG-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:42:03 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 31373 invoked by uid 3782); 8 Apr 2007 21:41:55 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p54A3DB8C.dip.t-dialin.net [84.163.219.140]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:41:54 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 7369 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Apr 2007 23:01:19 -0000 Original-Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:01:19 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:69202 Archived-At: '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.