From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Error Dismissing Startup Screen Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:20:06 -0800 Organization: None Message-ID: References: <21839889.post@talk.nabble.com> <7EDC3684-BC58-4E9D-98A1-C541280A1905@Web.DE> <21860253.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233930592 30114 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2009 14:29:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:29:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 06 15:31:06 2009 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 4.50) id 1LVRjM-0005uA-Ou for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:30:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57603 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVRi3-0006T7-Hi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:29:35 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: xoc2.stanford.edu Original-X-Trace: news.stanford.edu 1233883206 14738 171.64.109.31 (6 Feb 2009 01:20:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu X-Spook: Black September Kashmir FALN root-servers.net democratie X-Ran: Z`>82}gokh:?xO0`W(mnKn>}P|)v^]`W`/~Ok]|4E9LPVwNP0^]ZLSuvvi@MJ.u)>7tD+j X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RO6dWhgqNRDTWyQk+6pA4dvrH5M= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166627 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:61943 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa wrote: > I understand now! Since you do not have an init file, GNU Emacs can't > save any customisation. A 10 second experiment shows this statement is false. > So you have an answer to your latest question: yes, you need an init > file to save customisation. No you don't; one will be created for you.