From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Wordingham Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: split window Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 20:43:55 +0100 Message-ID: <20150527204355.435a5958@JRWUBU2> References: <20150526143108.59d7eb9a@zothique.localdomain> <20150527065620.66bcc51f@JRWUBU2> <20150526232646.21f3d172@zothique.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432755868 3063 80.91.229.3 (27 May 2015 19:44:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 19:44:28 +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 27 21:44:16 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YxhFQ-0000oH-8a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2015 21:44:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55248 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxhFP-0007NK-Ne for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2015 15:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53041) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxhFC-0007MH-61 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 May 2015 15:44:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxhF7-0007Iv-3R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 May 2015 15:44:02 -0400 Original-Received: from know-smtprelay-omc-3.server.virginmedia.net ([80.0.253.67]:37421) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxhF6-0007Hu-R4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 May 2015 15:43:57 -0400 Original-Received: from JRWUBU2 ([81.103.224.4]) by know-smtprelay-3-imp with bizsmtp id Z7jv1q00q06JmVd017jvPZ; Wed, 27 May 2015 20:43:55 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [81.103.224.4] X-Spam: 0 X-Authority: v=2.1 cv=TYVrzkkh c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=pLuj3OkTrmEUIJBpyvkqVg==:117 a=pLuj3OkTrmEUIJBpyvkqVg==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=NLZqzBF-AAAA:8 a=cW4-NtOyAAAA:8 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=1yxvKXO4mELDNOz7TVcA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 In-Reply-To: <20150526232646.21f3d172@zothique.localdomain> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.0.253.67 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104622 Archived-At: On Tue, 26 May 2015 23:26:46 -0700 Dale Snell wrote: > You might check your Ubuntu setup to see if you've got all the > packages that you should, and that they're all up to date. If it > were up to me, I'd update to the latest version of emacs in the > Ubuntu repos. Probably 24.5 or thereabouts. Version 23 is pretty > old. Emacs 23.3.1 is the latest for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, which is in long-term support until 2017. It was built for Ubuntu in May 2013. I've tried switching to Emacs 24.4, but the debugger interface (M-x gdb -i mi) makes horrible window and frame choices. I've gone back to Emacs 23 for running the debugger. I might even wind up integrating the m17n bug fixes and improvements into my copy. Emacs 24.4 was the latest stable Emacs release a few months ago. It might even be the last version for me as an editor - the news for Emacs 24.5 (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.24.5) says 'tpu-edt.el' is now obsolete, so I may have to find a new editor. I only need the EDT bits from tpu-edt. > This is what lead me to think it was something in the init file. > Try "emacs -q your-file.here", instead. The "-Q" inhibits the > startup screen as well as the site-init and user init files. The > lowercase "-q" option inhibits the user init file only. I did some archaeology with the Windows builds - command line uses runemacs. Version 22.1.1 opens a single window; without a file argument, it displays the startup screen. On Windows, Emacs 23.0.60.1 (and 23.2 and 24.4) displays two windows, the startup screen and the file to be visited, whether or not the -q option is specified. It looks like new Emacs behaviour at Version 23. It looks as though the answer to the original problem is to have one of the lines (setq inhibit-splash-screen t) (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) in one's .emacs. (One of the variables is an alias of the other.) I haven't experimented with it. It looks though the quick way to get the start-up screen will then be the menu sequence "help; about Emacs". Richard.