From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:34:26 +0200 Message-ID: <8762cwt3gt.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <877gxdyo3w.fsf@dod.no> <56Gjr.14461$bU5.12922@newsfe04.iad> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334831702 6283 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2012 10:35:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:35:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 19 12:35:02 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1SKohY-00067d-Fq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:35:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45715 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKohX-00075O-Rq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:34:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33653) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKohN-00075H-Kj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:34:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKohH-0004iB-1s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:34:49 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46073) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKohG-0004hz-RV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SKohE-0005wU-Q3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:34:40 +0200 Original-Received: from tsdh.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.67.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:34:40 +0200 Original-Received: from tassilo by tsdh.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:34:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tsdh.uni-koblenz.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aD40kW2nR0WnDJYl8hzsPb6wGYU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84510 Archived-At: "Ludwig, Mark" writes: Hi Mark, > I stand corrected. Using 'emacs -q' shows the startup screen, and it > does appear more durable than I remembered. Good! > > Now, I don't see anything in my .emacs that should prevent the startup > screen from appearing, but it's not appearing. How does Emacs decide > whether to show the startup screen? ,----[ (info "(emacs)Entering Emacs") ] | If the variable `inhibit-startup-screen' is non-`nil', Emacs does | not display the startup screen. In that case, if one or more files | were specified on the command line, Emacs simply displays those files; | otherwise, it displays a buffer named `*scratch*', which can be used to | evaluate Emacs Lisp expressions interactively. *Note Lisp | Interaction::. You can set the variable `inhibit-startup-screen' using | the Customize facility (*note Easy Customization::), or by editing your | initialization file (*note Init File::).(1) | | You can also force Emacs to display a file or directory at startup | by setting the variable `initial-buffer-choice' to a non-`nil' value. | (In that case, even if you specify one or more files on the command | line, Emacs opens but does not display them.) The value of | `initial-buffer-choice' should be the name of the desired file or | directory. `---- Bye, Tassilo