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: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:33:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87sl5n5yem.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87fy1nbe4f.fsf@jurta.org> <86myvu2zw1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <20070912093913.GB12104@saeurebad.de> <87wsuum8qw.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189920853 19632 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2007 05:34:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:34:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 16 07:34:11 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 1IWmln-0008L3-Au for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:34:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IWmlm-0003Os-BS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:34:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IWmlg-0003L0-3y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:34:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IWmlf-0003JW-1x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:34:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IWmle-0003J1-IC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IWmle-0001E4-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IWmlA-0007W6-29; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:33:32 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:18:06 +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:79012 Archived-At: # grep foo /etc/apache/httpd.conf I find that that's what I'm looking for, and I type # emacs M-. That is something an advanced user will do occasionally. Advanced users can easily turn off the splash screen. (I didn't know about the shell key M-. I expect to use it, tho not for invoking Emacs.) There are nonetheless beginners who habitually run Emacs with a file name argument, and would never see the splash screen if it only appeared with no argument. The reason I made that change is that I discovered this phenomenon.