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: site-start.el: inhibit-startup-screen? Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 19:44:43 -0600 Message-ID: References: <5FF50F23-9E80-484C-A02E-354AB92F7701@nf.mpg.de> <3199.1274382280@chondestes.bio.unc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274406319 15581 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2010 01:45:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 01:45:19 +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 May 21 03:45:18 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 1OFHIc-0001zM-7v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 03:45:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38520 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFHIb-0003ZB-Jw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 21:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40337 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFHI7-0003Xb-Da for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 21:44:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFHI5-0001XN-Tz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 21:44:47 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44973) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFHI5-0001XC-Nu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 21:44:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFHI3-0001pi-RO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 03:44:43 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2010 03:44:43 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2010 03:44:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Macintosh/20100228) In-Reply-To: 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:73702 Archived-At: Stefan Vollmar wrote: ... > We are trying to convince some MS Windows users at our institute to > use Emacs (for now, just for a specific purpose). These users have > certain expectations (some of them actually do make sense) and one of > them is that they can drop a file on the Emacs icon shortcut and that > file is then opened with Emacs, another is that when they open Emacs > with a double-click it should present an "untitled" buffer > ready-for-input. > > Unless a user manually disables the splashscreen, neither of these > requirements works. Why not distribute a 1-line .emacs to each user's PC? -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA