From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Will Parsons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs start page Date: 23 Jan 2008 17:28:11 GMT Organization: Westinghouse Electric Company Message-ID: <5vpbpaF1m0ml1U1@mid.individual.net> References: Reply-To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201110104 28690 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2008 17:41:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:41:44 +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 Jan 23 18:42:03 2008 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 4.50) id 1JHjbZ-0002b5-JP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:41:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHjb9-0001Ji-ML for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:41:15 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: individual.net r1Tgg4a2kTlM+ifwLOCjXgke/VLNJfeAfFQnaxpF3h5+dH7UeP Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ho9f72Zzk3VUeAcAolerS74xvco= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155480 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:50887 Archived-At: B. T. Raven wrote: > ilovemiami wrote: >> I am using fedora 8 right now. I got an annoying problem in the emacs >> come with the distribution. >> >> Everytime I start emacs to open a file, either old or new,I always got >> a default emacs message page. The page will dispaear when I press any >> key. That is annoying to me. Is there any way I can disable this >> feature? >> >> Thanks. > > If this is same screen you see when you do Menu>Help>About Emacs, then > adding (setq inhibit-splash-screen t) to your .emacs file will suppress > its display (and also the 3 info lines in *scratch* > The problem is that suppresses the splash screen unconditionally, whereas I at any rate like to see the splash screen if Emacs is started without specifying a file. I asked a question similar to the OP's a while ago, and got the following suggestion for .emacs from Sven Joachim: (when (> (length command-line-args) 1) (setq inhibit-splash-screen t)) (There were other more complex suggestions from other people, but the above works fine for my purposes.) - Will