From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a setting that makes emacs begin editing the init.el file on startup? Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 19:32:38 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86h8s1cw55.fsf@zoho.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515090824 3631 195.159.176.226 (4 Jan 2018 18:33:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 18:33:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 04 19:33:40 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eXAKb-0000ES-II for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 19:33:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59500 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eXAMY-00066P-TO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:35:34 -0500 X-Received: by 10.28.19.210 with SMTP id 201mr43958wmt.2.1515090760278; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:32:40 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!a71no63867wme.0!news-out.google.com!k126ni427wmg.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 53 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:W7sYzoD2TViEi2dFUzVJUDFUkN4= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221456 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115573 Archived-At: Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > I'm consolidating my configs across machines, > and now every time I start the machine, instead > of getting the empty scratch buffer, I see my > init.el. This happens because of something you did while "consolidating configs across machines". (One way to do that BTW is to have one file and the push it across the system.) Are you still invoking Emacs the standard way or do you pass it any creative arguments? If no, start examining the init files. If what you see first thing is init.el, then search your init files for any references to that file. > I've experimented with the 'inhibit' settings > for startup messages, but nothing is getting me > back to the blank scratch buffer. Well, you can get to it manually but you shouldn't have to. This $ emacs -Q -eval '(setq inhibit-startup-screen t)' should get you to the scratch buffer. Any problems for normal invocation are in your init files. Do a "binary search" (comment-out in halfs over and over to locate the error) if need be. BTW here is what I do - but that's the other way around, as I don't want the scratch buffer :) ;; no fanfare / init (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) (setq inhibit-startup-echo-area-message "incal") (setq byte-compile-verbose nil) ;; scratch buffer (setq initial-scratch-message nil) (kill-buffer "*scratch*") -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573