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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Joshua Richardson <jric@yahoo-inc.com>
Cc: 1309@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,
	"bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#1309: no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:23:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7i7gqntg.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7D76650699E4354D90489A1BF623EEF1133D0799FA@SP1-EX07VS02.ds.corp.yahoo.com> (Joshua Richardson's message of "Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:05:11 -0800")

> Maybe it's not possible, but either way, thinking it should be
> documented how it would be possible to start emacs without showing the
> startup screen.  There was one reference to using -quick, but that
> also seemed to bypass customizations.  There was not other reference

The startup screen itself has a link to "customize startup", where the
second entry is "inhibit startup screen".

Do you think we should try and make it more prominent?  If so how?


        Stefan







  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-07  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87skq5cp8z.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
2008-11-05 22:05 ` bug#1309: no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations Joshua Richardson
2008-11-06  7:10   ` bug#1309: marked as done (no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations) Emacs bug Tracking System
2008-11-07  2:23   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-11-07 19:39     ` bug#1309: no doc on how to avoid startup screen while still loading .emacs customizations Joshua Richardson

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