From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Joel J. Adamson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: site-start.el: inhibit-startup-screen? Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:04:40 -0400 Organization: University of North Carolina Message-ID: <3199.1274382280@chondestes.bio.unc.edu> References: <5FF50F23-9E80-484C-A02E-354AB92F7701@nf.mpg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274382935 7555 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2010 19:15:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 19:15:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Vollmar Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 20 21:15:33 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFBDJ-0007Dm-Db for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 21:15:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55360 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFB3Q-00089K-Er for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 15:05:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54436 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFB2z-00087r-0R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 15:04:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFB2w-0003qV-VN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 15:04:44 -0400 Original-Received: from chondestes.bio.unc.edu ([152.2.67.61]:54635) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFB2w-0003qO-S6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 15:04:42 -0400 Original-Received: from chondestes.bio.unc.edu (chondestes.bio.unc.edu [127.0.0.1]) by chondestes.bio.unc.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o4KJ4eCI003200; Thu, 20 May 2010 15:04:41 -0400 In-reply-to: <5FF50F23-9E80-484C-A02E-354AB92F7701@nf.mpg.de> Comments: In-reply-to Stefan Vollmar message dated "Thu, 20 May 2010 17:09:00 +0200." X-Image-URL: http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj/favicon.ico Face: /home/joel/.face X-Milkshake: Drainage! X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.1.1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73694 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Stefan Vollmar wrote: > Dear Drew, >=20 > On 19.05.2010, at 17:07, Drew Adams wrote: >=20 > >> we need to have an internal rollout of Emacs where we want to=20 > >> put some institute-specific defaults in a site-start.el (or=20 > >> default.el) file. I can see why one generally should not set=20 > >> "inhibit-startup-screen" as a default for new users, in our=20 > >> case (we try to provide internal documentation and courses)=20 > >> it seems justified. If we put > >>=20 > >> (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) > >>=20 > >> in site-start.el we still get the Emacs splashscreen. Is=20 > >> there a way to avoid the splashscreen other than using=20 > >> user-specific .emacs files?--=20 Just curious: Why do so many people loathe the splash screen? Why is it controversial? Joel =2D- Joel J. Adamson Servedio Lab University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill FSF Member #8164 http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkv1h8cACgkQdjuynxXap4QoZQCfecZuaJxbSVUTdPmLmUrxz1V4 yrkAn1ug0vE+jGOZypAskmq7cVnvdbNl =zW4G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--