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: Thu, 20 May 2010 08:19:20 -0700 Message-ID: References: <5FF50F23-9E80-484C-A02E-354AB92F7701@nf.mpg.de> 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 1274369288 14161 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2010 15:28:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:28:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "'Stefan Vollmar'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 20 17:28:07 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 1OF7fI-0005RP-6w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 17:28:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50086 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OF7Zs-0000g0-1q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:22:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42038 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OF7YS-0008Oo-7S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:21:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OF7Y9-0003ld-Ce for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:20:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:34021) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OF7Y9-0003kU-5c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:20:41 -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 o4KFKYuk028195 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 20 May 2010 15:20:37 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o4K0MQLu016959; Thu, 20 May 2010 15:20:32 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt014.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 254291631274368763; Thu, 20 May 2010 08:19:23 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 20 May 2010 08:19:22 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5931 In-reply-to: <5FF50F23-9E80-484C-A02E-354AB92F7701@nf.mpg.de> Thread-Index: Acr4LmWWnFkvafCmR6GPFVmznoJflgAAQOOw X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-Source-IP: acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090207.4BF55345.00D7: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:73691 Archived-At: > The latter solves the problem partially: > (find-file "~/untitled") > (setq initial-buffer-choice "~/untitled") > > will indeed display an "untitled" buffer (no more splash > screen), however, dropping a file on the Emacs icon no longer > opens that file but also displays the "untitled" buffer (to > be fair: I never mentioned that this drag & drop feature was > desirable in our case). > > Without "initial-buffer-choice" drag & drop works as expected > - but yields a split screen with the splash screen in the > lower part (and a full splash screen if the Emacs icon is > just clicked). > > So it seems that there is no easy way to configure Emacs 23.2 > to not display the splash screen (split or full screen), > apart from using a "--no-splash" start option or a user > specific .emacs file where inhibit-startup-screen does work > (if one still wants to have drag & drop support for the Emacs > icon). This is not a big deal for individual users, but still > a bit awkward if you want to have a ready-to-run-distribution > for a specific purpose. > > It seems to me that it would be a good thing if > inhibit-startup-screen would also work in a site-start.el-file. I don't think I have the answer. If you do not find a solution, consider filing an Emacs bug (or enhancement request), using `M-x report-emacs-bug'.