Stefan Vollmar <vollmar@nf.mpg.de> wrote:

> Dear Drew,
> 
> On 19.05.2010, at 17:07, Drew Adams wrote:
> 
> >> 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?-- 

Just curious: Why do so many people loathe the splash screen?  Why is it
controversial?

Joel
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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