From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New start up splash screen annoyance... Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:31:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87sl5n5yem.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87fy1nbe4f.fsf@jurta.org> <86myvu2zw1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189543062 29615 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2007 20:37:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:37:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, wilde@sha-bang.de, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 11 22:37:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IVCUE-0001WE-Jj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:37:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IVCUE-0006MO-N1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:37:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IVCOe-0003SU-M1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:31:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IVCOc-0003RX-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:31:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IVCOc-0003RR-Rl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:31:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IVCOc-0005S7-JB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:31:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IVCOD-0000kv-RX; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:31:17 -0400 In-reply-to: <86myvu2zw1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:28:46 +0200) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78599 Archived-At: So what is the recommended way to use Emacs when one wants to edit a file and has no Emacs session started already? If you have no Emacs running, type `emacs'. Otherwise, resume your existing Emacs. Then type C-x C-f FILE RET. > Experienced Emacs users generally don't do it anyway. Huh? If I start Emacs, why should I not specify what file I want to edit as an experienced user? Because nearly always you already have an Emacs running. It is a bad idea to teach yourself habits that presume you don't have an Emacs running, because that would lead you to kill Emacs and restart it, or to start multiple Emacs jobs. Over 20 years of Emacs experience shows that it is important to teach beginners to unlearn the habit of finding a file by typing `emacs FILE'.