From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: making Emacs 22 startup like Emacs 21 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:11:17 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87ejey4jqn.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195236714 2244 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2007 18:11:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:11:54 +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 Nov 16 19:12:00 2007 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 1It5fb-0007J4-OM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:12:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1It5fO-0000Df-Vu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:11:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1It5fA-0000DP-Lk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:11:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1It5f8-0000DD-Ek for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:11:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1It5f8-0000DA-Bu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:11:30 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1It5f7-0003aj-Pa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:11:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1It5es-0003V5-Kb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:11:14 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:11:14 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:11:14 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (Macintosh/20070809) In-Reply-To: <87ejey4jqn.fsf@gmx.de> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:49288 Archived-At: Sven Joachim wrote: > Will Parsons writes: > >> I find the new Emacs 22 startup behaviour quite annoying in that it puts >> up a splash screen even when Emacs is invoked with a file name. I've >> found the inhibit-splash-screen variable to inhibit the splash screen >> entirely, but I'd like to keep the splash screen if Emacs is invoked >> without arguments - just inhibit it if a file is specified. Is there >> any way to get this to work like Emacs 21? > > I've just put these 2¢ into my .emacs, which seem to do the trick: > > (when (> (length command-line-args) 1) That doesn't distinguish file names from other command line arguments such as options. A better test might be (> (length (buffer-list) 2) assuming that with no file name arguments just the *scratch* and *Messages* buffers exist. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA