From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Vollmar Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: site-start.el: inhibit-startup-screen? Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 08:51:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: <5FF50F23-9E80-484C-A02E-354AB92F7701@nf.mpg.de> <3199.1274382280@chondestes.bio.unc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-22--235234330; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274424781 30464 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2010 06:53:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 06:53:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs mailing list To: Kevin Rodgers Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 21 08:53:00 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 1OFM6N-0005LV-2V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 08:52:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42523 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFM6M-000882-Bx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 02:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40549 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFM5P-00084B-9e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 02:52:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFM5N-0001mI-P3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 02:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.nf.mpg.de ([134.107.209.50]:36626) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFM5M-0001la-R2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 02:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.162.77.169] (tmo-109-41.customers.d1-online.com [80.187.109.41]) by mail.nf.mpg.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.03 (built Apr 24 2009; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0L2R00DDZCIMLD00@mail.nf.mpg.de> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 08:54:27 +0200 (MEST) In-reply-to: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 9 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:73707 Archived-At: --Apple-Mail-22--235234330 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On 21.05.2010, at 03:44, Kevin Rodgers wrote: > Stefan Vollmar wrote: > ... >> We are trying to convince some MS Windows users at our institute to >> use Emacs (for now, just for a specific purpose). These users have >> certain expectations (some of them actually do make sense) and one of >> them is that they can drop a file on the Emacs icon shortcut and that >> file is then opened with Emacs, another is that when they open Emacs >> with a double-click it should present an "untitled" buffer >> ready-for-input. >> Unless a user manually disables the splashscreen, neither of these >> requirements works.=20 >=20 > Why not distribute a 1-line .emacs to each user's PC? I actually considered something like this and it would be a good = solution for homogeneous environments where every user has his or her = own centrally managed desktop machine. However, we also use terminal = servers where user profiles are generated only when and if users log = into that system. Even more difficult, there are Windows laptops where = we do not have full control over the installation - a case in which you = want to keep things as simple as possible. My goal is to give people a gentle exposure to Emacs in the (possibly = naive) hope that we can build on a good first impression which might = spark some further interest later. Warm regards, Stefan --=20 Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys. 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