From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12680: 24.2.50; about-emacs messages (startup-echo-area-message) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:53:11 -0400 Message-ID: <5dsj98pp4o.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87pq4ewsip@ch.ristopher.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1350784407 31858 80.91.229.3 (21 Oct 2012 01:53:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:53:27 +0000 (UTC) To: 12680@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 21 03:53:35 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1TPkjO-00064u-99 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 03:53:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59617 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TPkjG-0003xt-Vm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:53:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TPkj2-0004Cj-G2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:53:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:58332) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TPkj2-0004Cf-Cf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:53:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TPkj1-0002C6-Pw; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:53:11 -0400 X-Spook: Rand Corporation bluebird Noriega Treasury Semtex JPL X-Ran: G!I.';m3i28ePp1%t36hs!8o~1Z_dAXMJl#{ZW1tJG|0XWu^e""^zO^=J.j*nTf'^5'>*/ X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87pq4ewsip@ch.ristopher.com> (Christopher Schmidt's message of "Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:33:36 +0100 (BST)") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:65807 Archived-At: Christopher Schmidt wrote: > If (use-fancy-splash-screens-p) is non-nil, about-emacs (C-h C-a), in > particular fancy-about-screen, messages (startup-echo-area-message). > This is confusing, especially when Emacs is started as a daemon. Sorry, I don't understand. Why is it confusing when Emacs was not started as a daemon? Why is it confusing if Emacs _was_ started in that way?