Dear Johan,
dear Drew,
dear Chong,
dear Joel,

On 20.05.2010, at 21:34, Johan Bockgård wrote:

> [...]
> Try
>    (setq initial-buffer-choice 'none)


this solves my problem beautifully.

Apparently, if you want the equivalent of
(setq inhibit-startup-screen t)
which works fine in .emacs, 
(setq initial-buffer-choice 'none)
is the way to do it if it should work in site-start.el.

I have tested it with the Emacs 23.2 on Windows and even dropping a file onto the Emacs icon shortcut will now work as expected.

Thank you and sorry for the noise.

Warm regards,
 Stefan
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