bug#1309: no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations

bug#1309: no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations

[Joshua Richardson]

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Maybe it's not possible, but either way, thinking it should be documented how it would be possible to start emacs without showing the startup screen.  There was one reference to using -quick, but that also seemed to bypass customizations.  There was not other reference to the startup screen.  I'm referring to documentation at:  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html

Thanks, --josh


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bug#1309: marked as done (no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations)

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Maybe it's not possible, but either way, thinking it should be documented how it would be possible to start emacs without showing the startup screen.  There was one reference to using -quick, but that also seemed to bypass customizations.  There was not other reference to the startup screen.  I'm referring to documentation at:  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html

Thanks, --josh


Joshua Richardson

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Joshua Richardson <jric@yahoo-inc.com>
Cc: 1309-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:01:00 -0500
Message-ID: <87skq5cp8z.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>

> Maybe it's not possible, but either way, thinking it should be
> documented how it would be possible to start emacs without showing the
> startup screen.  There was one reference to using -quick, but that
> also seemed to bypass customizations.  There was not other reference
> to the startup screen.  I'm referring to documentation at:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html

I've made some changes to the Emacs manual in CVS that describes
inhibit-startup-screen more prominently.  These changes will appear on
the website when Emacs 23 is released.  Thanks for the bug report.

bug#1309: no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations

[Stefan Monnier]

> Maybe it's not possible, but either way, thinking it should be
> documented how it would be possible to start emacs without showing the
> startup screen.  There was one reference to using -quick, but that
> also seemed to bypass customizations.  There was not other reference

The startup screen itself has a link to "customize startup", where the
second entry is "inhibit startup screen".

Do you think we should try and make it more prominent?  If so how?


        Stefan

bug#1309: no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations

[Joshua Richardson]

I don't see the link; must be in newer versions only.  As an aside, the option doesn't seem to be working with my version.  If I type 'M-x eval-expression', 'inhibit-startup-screen', I see 't' in the status bar, but I'm still getting startup screens.  Here is the text from my startup screen:

Welcome to GNU Emacs, a part of the GNU operating system.

Type C-l to begin editing your file.

Get help           C-h  (Hold down CTRL and press h)
Emacs manual       C-h r
Emacs tutorial     C-h t           Undo changes     C-x u
Buy manuals        C-h C-m         Exit Emacs       C-x C-c
Browse manuals     C-h i
Activate menubar   F10  or  ESC `  or   M-`
(`C-' means use the CTRL key.  `M-' means use the Meta (or Alt) key.
If you have no Meta key, you may instead type ESC followed by the character.)

GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-pc-freebsd, GTK+ Version 2.10.9)
 of 2007-08-01 on build01-bsd4.dt.corp.sp1.yahoo.com
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type C-h C-w for full details.
Emacs is Free Software--Free as in Freedom--so you can redistribute copies
of Emacs and modify it; type C-h C-c to see the conditions.
Type C-h C-d for information on getting the latest version.

If an Emacs session crashed recently, type Meta-x recover-session RET
to recover the files you were editing.


-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Monnier [mailto:monnier@iro.umontreal.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 6:23 PM
To: Joshua Richardson
Cc: 1309@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1309: no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations

> Maybe it's not possible, but either way, thinking it should be
> documented how it would be possible to start emacs without showing the
> startup screen.  There was one reference to using -quick, but that
> also seemed to bypass customizations.  There was not other reference

The startup screen itself has a link to "customize startup", where the
second entry is "inhibit startup screen".

Do you think we should try and make it more prominent?  If so how?


        Stefan