From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: site-start.el: inhibit-startup-screen? Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 08:07:30 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274281696 756 80.91.229.12 (19 May 2010 15:08:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 15:08:16 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Stefan Vollmar'" , "'Emacs mailing list'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 19 17:08:15 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEksY-00011i-KA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 17:08:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44762 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OEksY-00058W-31 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 11:08:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54656 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OEks6-000577-H9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 11:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEks4-0004d0-Tk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 11:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:44251) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEks4-0004cq-Gf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 11:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o4JF7fJM005969 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 19 May 2010 15:07:43 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt353.oracle.com (acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o4J5uLQa029257; Wed, 19 May 2010 15:07:39 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt012.oracle.com by acsmt353.oracle.com with ESMTP id 250798321274281652; Wed, 19 May 2010 08:07:32 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 19 May 2010 08:07:32 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Acr3ZGGdLzDEhad8RfCqwVSRL5B/RQAAHL/w X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5931 X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-Source-IP: acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090205.4BF3FEBF.00D9:SCFMA922111,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:73677 Archived-At: > we need to have an internal rollout of Emacs where we want to > put some institute-specific defaults in a site-start.el (or > default.el) file. I can see why one generally should not set > "inhibit-startup-screen" as a default for new users, in our > case (we try to provide internal documentation and courses) > it seems justified. If we put > > (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) > > in site-start.el we still get the Emacs splashscreen. Is > there a way to avoid the splashscreen other than using > user-specific .emacs files? I would think, following the doc, that (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) would work. You might want to check whether the value is actually t after Emacs starts up. If it is not, figure out where it gets changed. Other than that, take a look also at option `initial-buffer-choice'.